Airport Extreme - Worked excellent x 1 week, now it's very very slow - no idea why or where to start evaluating it

So I recently purchased Airport Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi...
I have it set up to provide wireless for my laptop, Ipad2, AppleTV, and a printer...I'm in a small apartment and the wireless router is at the same desk as the laptop (which is usually used as a desktop style) so it has full bars.
When it first set it all up, it was blazingly fast...and absolutely no problems. Then over the past few days, it has slowed tremendously and the only way to get full speed is to connect the ethernet cord directly to the laptop. When I try to switch back to the router Wi-Fi it slows to a crawl (we are talking dial-up modem 1990's in loading a picture)....When I switch it back to a direct connection it then downloads with no problems.
I was reviewing older forum stuff but a lot of the terminology is over my head.
Security is WAP2 personal
I have 2 channels which it says are Automatic (6, 159)
Looks like I have 5Ghz/2.4Ghz Airport IDs...
It's uptodate with version 7.6
It says I have 3 wireless clients - Is this the printer, Ipad2, and Apple TV? Or is it possible someone else is on my secure network?
I just don't know where to start to figure out what's going on. I also have a wireless keyboard and mouse by logitech - could this be interfering? Unsure but I have those two next to each other but that shouldn't be affecting it after a week of it working perfect, should it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

It's possible that the Airport card has issues (I had mine replaced on my older MBP a couple of years ago).  I would run a Hardware Test to see if that develops anything.  If not I would take it to the Apple store Genius bar.
(make an appointment first).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
Ciao.

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