Why are the wi-fi speeds bad even with my own rout...

When I connect with an Ethernet, I get amazing speed of 74/76mb download. but soon as i connect via wi-fi with the hub or my own router, speeds dropped till about 20/25mbs.. whats causing the problem, I have tried to change channels but to no effect.. 
no question of the speed is great via the ethernet connection so i know there is no issue with the line or other wise, its just an wi-fi issue 
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I've got a Netgear WNDR3700v2 and I get the same (using either band 5Ghz or 2.4Ghz), my throughput seems to max out at 29Mb/s (can get 34 if I turn off wireless encryption - but not prepared to do that)
I don't generally use wi-fi for serious file transfers though, so it's not really a big concern for me but would be nice to hit full speed on wireless
Download a copy of inSIDDer (http://www.metageek.net/)& have a look to see if your area is particuarly Wifi saturated

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