Awful wireless speeds with HH3 and Infinity

Hi all, had infinity installed last week (28th Dec). BT haven't sent me my hub yet so the OR engineer had to get me a HH3 Type A off his van and said for me to use that till my HH5 arrives on 6th Jan. The HH3A was awful so I swapped it for my HH3B from my old house where I had infinity last year before I had to move back to my parents and had to cancel it. Anyway the wired speed is fine, 38 down 9 up, stable and good ping. The wireless is a different matter. Where to start. I have tried b/g/n normal, b/g/n 40mhz, channel 1 - 11 (all combos), and DHCP lease increase amongst other things. Basically when I check wireless devices individually, my iphone 4 for example, link speed is often 1mbps, regardless of proximity to the hub, the channel, the freq, regardless of anything. Speed test on my phone will show 0.3 down and 0.0 up. My sky mini wireless on demand box is the same, 1mbps, it will then shoot up to 140mbs but there will be no download speed increase. I don't know why this is happening. I have turned off all lights in the house, the heating is off, no radios are on, no cordless phones are on, I just don't know what to do. I will of course try my HH5 when it arrives and hope this helps. I will be hard wiring my sky box and xbox in soon to avoid wireless as I have always hated it's instability and unpredictability. Anyone else suffer such poor speeds?
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Try a factory reset of the homehub by pressing a pin into the recess button on the rear for about 20 seconds. If you were previously using it on ADSL broadband it might be a configuration problem.

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