Wifi with Time Capsule really slow

I have a brand new Time Capsule, macbook pro 13", and iPad (all of them less than a month old, purchased the same time). Everything work together great with the exception of my iphone 4. Using a download apps, if I download using 3G I get over 300kb/sec. Download using wifi, I get about 30kb/sec and sometime less. If I reset, I mean hard reset the time capsule and reconfigure it, I'll get amazing speed for a day or two on my iphone. Then it slowed down to crawl again. Using speedtest apps shows the speed is great at 8 to 9 mb/sec. I'm baffled.
I set my macbook pro to connect 5GHz, and the rest is automatic.
Any tips?

You have the dual "n" band enabled with your Time Capsule - the 5GHz band for your MBP, and the 2.4GHz band for your iPhone?
I have not experienced the same with my iPhone 4 when connected to my Time Capsule set up with dual band for my MBP and iPhone.

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