Best Airport Basestation settings for iPhone speed

Hi all, I thought I'd start a thread to capture the best settings for the Airport Basestations to get max speed for iPhone when using Wifi.
I've found there is a big difference in network speed between a Mac and the iPhone even when on the same WiFi network. Try any of these tests on your iPhone and your Mac:
http://i.dslr.net/tinyspeedtest.html
http://iphonespeedtest.com/
http://testmyiphone.com/
Background from this article:
http://www.iphonefreak.com/2008/07/dsl-reports-offers-iphone-friendly-speed-test .html
Here's my experience to date (all subjective, no measurements yet).
- WPA2 and any form of network encryption slows down the transfer speed to the iPhone
- I'm currently using no encryption but MAC address filtering on the Airport BS
- Basestation in bridge mode
Please post your results

Answered my own question:
The answer is set your Wifi to B only and all the speed problems with the iPhone 3G will be fixed! There seems to be a problem with the 802.11G on the iPhone in my experience.

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