Airport wireless speed issues.

Hello all.
First off, I'd like to say, I'm new at this stuff, so go easy.
The problem I'm having is that recently after soft resetting my airport, I can't seem to: 1. keep a steady connection and 2. have download speeds that are horrendously slow (compared to what I got, say, last week.) I've already tried a hard reset as well, and I know it can't be an interference issue, because I got poor speeds even while having my iBook directly across from the router. Wired speeds are equally as slow.
As per another thread I saw, I tried changing my WPA protection to WEP, but that didn't do the trick, and now my Windows XP (wireless) desktop and laptop won't connect at all.
Any ideas?

But that's what's odd, the wired speeds when directly connected to my cable modem were fine and fast, but when connected to the router, they're horrible.

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