Slow, slow, poor quality streaming from netflix, utube, imdb, etc

My wi-fi appears to be working correctly with full signal strength and fast web browsing, but as soon as I try to stream any tv shows, movies or trailers, there is a considerable lag and the quality of the picture is not great. Are my expectations just too high? I've been steaming HD content thru my xbox 360 with perfect results and I have the fastest download speed available thru my ATT service at home. Anyone else have this problem or a solution?

Let me add a few more details. I had trouble streaming in youtube app and in safari. I had trouble with streaming apple's own videos and from cnn and anything else I could think of. At the same time, other computers on the same network had no problem streaming the same videos.
I also had trouble downloading high-res photos that required sustained transfers on the same network. The photo would start downloading fast then slow to a crawl and sometimes never complete. So it seems like a wifi issue and not just a video streaming issue.

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