No idea and no way to test right now :(
...but I can send you the dead mobo, if you wish :D
Yea, the WiFi 54g I tried too, surprisingly quick pings, but not so usefull transferrates [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Your powerbook has VERY lazy net then. ping at localhost (itself) should be HELL MUCH faster, dude... That suxx... Let me try mine:
C:\Documents and Settings\trodas>ping localhost
This is hrPING v2.01 by Chris Lueders of cFos Software --
http://www.cfos.de
Using CPU TSC; calibrated to 2434.518 MHz
Pinging localhost [127.0.0.1]
with 64 bytes data (92 bytes IP) (overlapped):
Reply from 127.0.0.1: seq=0001 time=0.020ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: seq=0002 time=0.029ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: seq=0003 time=0.018ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: seq=0004 time=0.023ms TTL=128
Statistics for localhost:
Packets: sent=4, rcvd=4, error=0, lost=0 (0% loss) in 1.500111 sec
RTTs of replies in ms: min/max/avg: 0.018 / 0.029 / 0.022
:D