Very Slow 12" Powerbook with Airport Express - 15" PB OK

Here's my problem; Our 12" 1.5 PB is very slow with Airport Express but It is OK when directly connected to the cable Modem via Ethernet. We also have a 15" PB 1.67 that works great with Airport Express & Ethernet. The 12" PB takes approximately 4-10 times longer to load Internet pages than the 15" PB. Here's what I've tried so far without success;
- made sure software was up to date (10.4.8)
- turned off the A/E security
- different A/E channels
- moved the A/E base station to another location
- a differrent A/E base station
- a Linksys WRTG54 base
- new Airport Extreme Card in 12" PB
- ran Apple hardware test on 12" PB - checks OK
- re-installed fresh OS and Apps from original install disks
- Firefox instead of Safari
- new user account on 12" PB
- re-installed original 512 RAM
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Jerry,
You're not going crazy, by the way. I have the exact same problem with my 12' Powerbook. I even tried swapping airport cards with another Powerbook. No luck. Ethernet is ok.
Any help is appreciated.

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Thanks for the welcome as well as the advice. I will check into that if the problem continues. Yes, for some reason my problem cured itself. I did increase the multicast rate from 2 to 5.5, and on a whim tried to download some more video from iTunes. Viola! It zipped along as if I was connected directly with an ethernet cable.
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