Max speed for Airport Extreme??

I just connected with Verizon Fios (fiber) and have 15mb down and 2 mb up speeds. I have verified the speed with an XServe directly attached to the router.
The airport extreme serve the rest of the house. I have yet to see speeds exceeding 3.5 mb once it goes thru the airport.
Am I missing something in a setup??
Or is there a limit to speeds??

OK. So is there a setting I can use to beef up the
speed? I'm about 75' away from the base but also
using 2 Express Stations as extenders.
I actually connect to one of the Express Stations as
I get a full signal.
With this kind of configuration you can get a maximum
throughput of:
- with only 802.11g (Extreme): 22 Mbit/s / 4 = 5.5 Mbit/s
- with 802.11b: 5.5 Mbit/s / 4 = 1.5 Mbit/s
(Here I'm speaking of throughput at a user level, for
exemple with an FTP directly wrom one of your computers
to the next).
You may improve this by suppressing the 2 network
extenders (they eat their share of the bandwidth).
Then by using only 802.11g.
Don't forget to check out that you don't have any
neighbour's interfering network. They may interfere with
your own network without completly droping it.
dan    

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