Timecapsule/airport extreme working with iMAC, poor with anything else!

I am having trouble with my network. All of a sudden within this last week, my network gives great performance with my iMAC (20-30 Mbbs using speed test), but poor with any thing else (iphone 3Gs 1 Mbs or less, PC snail pace, apply TV not good). How to get performance back for my peripherals? iPhone next to iMac when speed test run, so not an issue of floors etc. Also, previously the iphone was also fast (>5 Mbps). running iOS 4.3
does it have something to do with upgrading firmware of timecapsule? now 7.5.2, I think I just upgraded it too.

Macs and PCs work together just fine with an Airport Express.
Unfortunately, you have given us little information to help you with beyond simply indicating that "it doesn't work". Please elaborate:
1. do the Mac and PC "see" the Airport Express wireless network?
2. if so, does the Airport Utility (or Airport Admin Utility) on either computer "see" the Airport Express and allow you to view/change its configuration?
3. what does the status light on the Airport Express show?
4. if you can connect to the Airport Express wireless network from the PC and/or Mac, is the only problem that you cannot access the internet?
5. what kind of reset did you do? To really start from scratch, do a factory default reset as described here.

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+I was told I could use an Airport Extreme to bridge to my WRT160N+
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Hi Everyone. I hope this post will be helpful because I have been very frustrated with apple and their customer support and I figured this out on my own by reading all of the discussions and playing with my settings but it took me a while...
I recently for school bought all apple products and I have non-mac products as well. I bought the airport extreme believing I could hook up all of my computers through it and share the printers and my mybook external hard drive with my husbands desktop and the other lap tops. Unfortunately this was not as easy as advertised...
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Timecapsule/airport extreme working with iMAC, poor with anything else!

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