On 3/24/06, Zhu Yi [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:

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That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
 client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
 usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
 sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
 shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
 order of magnitude.

What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
and retest.

The issue seems to have vanished in more recent kernel snapshots
 (namely, 2.6.16-git3 and -git5 exhibited the problem; -git8 and -git9
 did not).

I will holler if the problem pops up again... thanks,

--alessandro

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