AirPort Fiasco in the N-th Dimension

So you’ve got your new Macbook or even a Macbook Pro and this shiny new Draft-N-Router. But for the life of you they seem to refuse to work together. Or better said, they’ll talk to each other but when transfering data you could as well use a chisel and a stone plate to deliver the information faster.
The reason most likely is that you choose to use WEP to protect your wireless data stream. I don’t know how Apple made this happen but when using WEP at least the Atheros chip in my Macbook will transfer around 1 MByte in 10 minutes (no typo!) while when using WPA2 it will transfer around 1 Gigabyte in 5 to 7 minutes (depending on the Draft-N-Router I use).
Most interestingly this problem only occurs when connecting to Draft-N-Routers. Using my trusty old Netgear WAG302 I don’t have any problems whatsoever when using WEP to satisfy some of my older clients.
Also, as the screenshot shows, Apple could well add some more speed…