Windows 10: Getting slow speed on apt get in Kali WSL 2 while Ubuntu WSL 2 works a lot better. And...

Background: I am a noob, so sorry for any technical details I get wrong. I already had Ubuntu installed on WSL1, and it was pretty slow. Then I upgraded it to WSL2 and it got super fast. I needed Kali for learning pentesting and had a terrible experience while trying to dual boot it. I screwed up with the installation, and Grub gave me a lot of strange screens before booting into Windows. Then in an attempt to remove Kali, I deleted that partition from within windows. Then I couldn't boot into windows and was stuck on the Grub Rescue. Then I had to reinstall Kali, then boot into Windows, then get back to the recovery environment, which Grub gave me a trouble in accessing, then I had to repair Windows MBR using bootrec.

I installed a VM, but I just didn't like Kali on it. So, I decided to Kali on WSL2. The problem is Kali is atrociously slow with the "apt get" stuff. I checked the speed using speedtest-cli and it was ~ 3MB/s / 24 Mb/s, but "apt get" just can't go beyond 40-70 Kbps. Ubuntu was same before WSL2 but now it is fine. Kali is already on WSL2, so I can't understand what is wrong. Can anyone help me?

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