BT infinity home hub wireless speeds

A few days ago, I contacted the customer support about how my wireless speeds were limited to 11-21 on WAN/LAN
I've just received a new router but the problem still persists, except now I can reach 23 mbps on wireless rather than 21mbps - Although this "new" router tends to drop speeds much worse, i'm at 11 mbps most of the time.
Here's everything I've tried:
Windows 7/ Windows XP / Ubuntu 10.10 / PCI wireless cards (wireless N)/ USB wireless adapters(wireless N) / 3 different laptops(wireless N) / 2 Desktop computers(wireless N and wireless G) / Every wireless channel (more or less)/ changing wireless password encryption / using only b, b/g and b/g/n / flushing DNS, all that jazz
I've tested LAN speeds.. <3MB/s when 1 PC is connected through ethernet and <1.7MB/s when both wireless
Speeds reach 10-15 MB/s on ethernet LAN (dependant on the file)  and 4.1 MB/s on ethernet WAN 
And before you say it, I've disabled the antivirus...
Any ideas?

Simple answer is a wireless connection is NEVER as fast or reliable as a wired one as there are to many causes of interference that can reduce speed and connection I personally avoid any wireless connection if you want a decent speed and that goes for any router
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