My Time Capsule suddenly slowed my wi-fi network speed. Any clue?

Don’t bother with my strange printer name login. I did something wrong in the past and I am not able to change it. Anyway, my problem seems to be more common than I thought. My wi-fi network suddenly lost speed. Directly connected to the cable modem I get full dow/uoload speeds but through Time Capsule I only get 20x lower download speed (strange but uoload is less affected).
Tried almost everything already: soft and hard resets, channel changes, firmware updates and nothing changes. I talked to the Apple support here in Brazil and seem to be lost on the problem. Any final solution for an apparently quite common problem? I am already considering to buy a new router…
Thx,
ECastro

Do yet another factory reset.. sorry!! But we need to start from a known baseline.
And tell us what version your TC is?? A1xxx from the rubber foot.
Setup wireless to meet SMB rules.. Wireless name is short, no spaces, pure alphanumeric.
Set a different name for 5ghz. Same rules.
Set TC name also to the rules.
So you have for example.. TC named TC
2.4gz named TC24ghz
5ghz named TC5ghz
Use WPA2 Personal secuirity with password that is 8-12 characters pure alphanumeric.
Update and put the TC back into the network in either bridge or router mode.. those are the only suitable modes.. and TC has to be set to create a wireless network.
Now connect a laptop to the 5ghz wireless signal from the same room as the TC and measure your speed.
Test again over ethernet if the wireless is slow.. if both are slow the TC is faulty or simply doesn't work correctly on your kind of broadband. This is now happening with fibre connections.. Apple have not updated the routing part of the firmware for ages.. and are ignoring the issue. Get a different brand router and bridge the TC for TM use only.

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