A further thought on the situation:
4. Signal strength does make a difference here.
At -69 to -67 dbm or three bars on the network manager icon, my broadband
works works very well;
At -73 or -72 dbm or two bars, my broadband is noticeably poorer; and
At -75 dbm my broadband gives up.
I have the feeling the latest kernel may have much improved the SNR
situation for the rt2500 hardware. In my case my broadband performance
with Linux is now on a par with that of XP.
I get my dbms from iwconfig and my broadband test from SpeedTest.net. I
get my broadband from Verizon FiOS, usually at about 15Mbps.
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rt2500pci wireless regression in lucid
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