Advanced Network Question - SSH tunneling through time capsule

Hi!
I have a small question. I just got a time capsule the other day and things are working great with it. At home, internet speeds are what they should be and everything is fine. I replaced it with a linksys, which I consistently got 6.5/1 up. After replacing it, I'm now getting 7.5 down/1mbps up, which is what I am subscribed to.
I used to ssh into my linux box and tunnel web traffic over SSH so when I'm on the road, other's can't sniff my traffic. Basically, I setup firefox to use a socks server, then ssh into home with a dynamic port mapping.
On the linksys (wrt54g), this worked great, and the speeds were acceptable (about 1mbps down/1mbps up). However, after switching the linksys with the time capsule, it seems like the speeds have slowed down tremendously. I'm now getting about 200k down and 1 mbps up when I ssh and tunnel web traffic through my home.
I know that this isn't anything people normally do, but it works great and prevents people from spying on my web traffic when I'm away from home. I was just wondering if anybody has any ideas on why it might be slower now that I replaced it with the time capsule.
Thanks!

Hello H Salk. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Enabling NAT on any Internet router, not just the AirPort & Time Capsule, will affect data transfer rates (in both directions) to devices connected either by wire or wireless to that router.

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