On 3/24/06, Zhu Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > 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 "Dreamer ? Each one of us is a dreamer. We just push it down deep because we are repeatedly told that we are not allowed to dream in real life" (Reinhold Ziegler) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html