I've got the same problem, with the same wireless card. The workaround (sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M) does work, but that's just a workaround, not a fix.
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New => Confirmed
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WiFi card is slow in 8.04 beta 5
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215529
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