Solved: Wireless internet much slower on desktop than laptop

So i put in an old belkin g wireless card in my new pc. the card hasn't been used for pretty long. i know the card is capable of fast enough speeds, so im not sure what the problem is. i ran some tests at speedtest.net and my speeds are like 3 times as slow on my desktop. could an old wireless card cause this or what?also im using an xp driver on vista os, only one that works
both computer are right next to each other but the belkin wireless utility says that i have no connection, but the network connections thing shows that i do

i ran a connectivity test with the belkin wireless utility and it failed the "Belkin" and "Heartbeat" tests.

it's F5D7000 v.6000 and im using the xp driver for it, the vista driver is beta and doesn't work
pretty sure it's 802.11g but they also have 54g drivers on the website under the same product name (F5D7000)

their website says vista has it's own drivers to use but it didn't work for me, but actually i had to unplug the card then install the drivers, turn off the computer, then plug it in to get it to work. maybe if i do that again except uninstall the driver first it will work? but then it would have done that the first time wouldn't it...

actually it says that for ver.1xxx but itd prob be the same for me since i dont have vista drivers

i got fast speeds a while ago but now it's back to the same slowness

 

Well, with no exact models, and using the wrong drivers, there are plenty of places to go wrong here. How about more information?

 

Well, what fixed it was i turned off the belkin wireless utility, which wasn't showing up a connection.