Mac Pro with XP in boot camp - wireless speed fluctuates

I'm running XP on my Mac Pro, i installed all the latest drivers (from the leopard DVD and also from windows update) but i'm noticing very heavy fluctuations regarding my wireless network speed.
When i look at "Wireless Network Connection Status", the connection/strength is always very good, but the speed fluctuates from anything between 54Mbps to just 1Mbps.
I've searched the forum and i've found some people with similar, but not the same problem, and their solutions (mainly windows patches) did not work for me.
Just to be clear, under Leopard the wireless connection works just fine, and on my work laptop (hp, XP Pro) it works as expected. So it doesnt seem to be a router problem to me.

Thank you for the link but it wasn't helpful as it only really said compatibility.  What did finally resolve the issue was going directly to AMD and finding that they updated the BootCamp specific drivers.  For other that stumble upon this, you cannot use the normal drivers from AMD but you must search for the bootcamp specific drivers (which also includes an updated Catalyst utility and a couple extra things not included in Apples release of the drivers).

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