Super slow wifi with 4th gen Time Capsule

So, I got my 4th gen 3TB Time Capsule yesterday, hooked it up to my main computer (iMac, mid 2010) with ethernet cable, updated the firmware, and let it sit for it's first back up.
Today when I was going to properly set up the wifi at home (two room apartment) it seemed to be going well, iPhone and iPad get decent wifi, it just seems that the wifi range in the apartment isn't as good as with my old junky Belkin router, but it manages. But then I started up a PC running Windows 7 (64-bit) and connected to the wifi network, tried to download something off of Steam and hit about 114kb/s as max download rate (but the average speed is just a couple of kb/s, if even that)... Before I downloaded at about 1-1,5mb/s.
I started Steam through Parallels Desktop on my iMac and tried downloading through there, and had a download rate of about 3mb/s, so I'm blaming it on the wifi.
I fooled around with the Time Capsules wireless settings, 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g/n / b/g and so forth, with only a decrease in performance, the automatic setting works the "best". I tried giving the 5GHz network it's own name but I dunno, I can't find the network with that name through the PC. But still, as I don't get the same consistent wifi cover in my apartment as with the Belkin router, I'm thinking something is generally messed with the Time Capsules wifi, not just the PC.
Any ideas, any solutions? It would be greatly appreciated!

Today I also tried connecting my Playstation 3 to the router, both are in the same room, about 5 meters apart, t'was SLOW And needless to say, with the Belkin router it was much, much faster. For once I'm not blaming Windows on this one.
Also, ran a speedtest app on my iPhone, it was MUCH faster yesterday with the time capsule (though not satisfactory), today it's about 1/10th of yesterdays slow speed...

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