I have a netgear adapter for my desktop, and it's been very slow lately.

I have a laptop, and on my wireless network I get a signal of 54mbps easily, so I know it's not my router. But on my desktop with the netgear adapter I get only mediocre speeds, and worse signals. Sometimes signal strength jumps to 24mbps, but other times it'll drop as low as 1mbps, and signal strengh is 2 bars.

Now this didn't always happen, I remember being able to use my desktop to watch movies no problem. I don't know what I did recently, but I could use some detailed instructions on how to speed up my router.