Airport Express downloads SLOW - is this normal or do I have a problem?

I have a DSL modem connected to an Airport Express and my two Macs (G4 Quicksilver and G4 iMac) are connected wirelessly ( Airport card in the old computer, Airport Extreme in the iMac). Internet downloads are crawling, so I used several DSL speed tests on the iMac from the net, getting download speeds from 62 - 108 kbps. I called my ISP (Mindspring) and they asked me to check connecting the modem directly to the iMac by Ethernet. Now the downloads are going at the rate I'd expect, 1100 - 1300 kbps.
Is this loss of speed using wireless conections, with 2 computers going, expected with the Airport Express, or is there a way to get better results? Note that signal strengths are good.

However only 2 speakers will work no matter what I am doing unless I turn on the CMSS 3D setting in the EAX console.Only then will all my speakers work.
However if the CMSS 3D setting is off I can go into the Speaker Settings console and run the channel tester and the noise button and it plays the sound in all of the speaker channels including the woofer.But when I play music or any games it only uses the front left and right speakers as if it were only a stereo set of speakers and not a 5..But turn on the CMSS 3D again and I get full 5. sound in all speakers the way it is supposed to be.
Normal. Nothing worng with it.
As for Ventrilo, no idea cos I don't use that.

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