Unfounded Theroy:
What could have happened is that the two computers noticed that they are on the same wireless network, and could be talking directly to each other without the help of the AP, so while they might be getting a 11Mbps connection to the AP, they could be getting just a 2Mbps connection to each other. I'm not sure if 802.11b does this, but just to try things out, you could try to move the two devices closer together.
Now, if they aren't talking directly to each other, remember that wireless networking is a shared medium, if there are two people on it transferring files to each other, your bandwidth between them drops down to a half, minus some more for overhead/timing delays. So if they are sending data through the AP, the packet has to go over the wireless to the AP, bounce back from the AP to the other computer, wait for the reply to be sent and bounced, and then it starts again.
I'm not to experienced with wireless though, I only use my wireless access point to serve up data for one laptop, and it's just used as a toy, no serious transfers, for that, I plug it in.
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