Speed on 2 computers

Hi, I have a strange problem:
I have a desktop and a laptop and a new internetconnection. When I use the desktop, I get downloads of up to about 3 Mbyte per second. However, if I change the same ethernet cable from the desktop on the laptop, I only get about 90 kbyte per second. I (obviously) want to solve this and get fast downloads on my laptop as well.
The desktop was just updated with pacman. The laptop needs a 545 MB downloads by pacman to get the latest software. As you can imagine, I'd like my network fast before I download that chunk of software...
For some reason, connecting the laptop through eth0 or through ra0 (wireless) does not make any difference; both are slow. The laptop is about 3 years old.
My question is: are there any network settings that I can use to speed up the internet? It seems logic that I should be able to make the network faster...

Not sure on your internet speed questions, but couldn't you just copy the packages over from the desktop to the laptop? They're in /var/cache/pacman/pkg

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My contact information,
I have left this out here, you can contact me on these forums...

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