Netgear MA401 (wireless network card) trouble

[Karl Eklund]

Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about
12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several
things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becomes
very slow if files are transferred at the same time). It is remedied
by pulling out the card and inserting it again.  It has been going on
since I installed the card, with Linux versions 2.4.18, 2.4.19 and
2.4.20.  Is this a known problem?