I also updated the iwl drivers in the gutsy linux-ubuntu-modules to 1.2.25 and 1.0.4. There is definitely a huge improvement, but it isn't perfect. When things are working properly my speed on long file copies fluctuates between 1300 and 2300 KB per second. When things go 'bad' I'm luck to break 100 KB per second. The speeds are the same with the ipw3945 modules, or the stock or upgraded iwl3945 modules.
However, the when things are slow with the ipw3945 module I see lots of errors under ifconfig and iwconfig. iwl3945 shows me nothing, it just gets slow and if the pipe is full (at 100 KB/sec) the latency goes to 400+ on pings on my local subnet. The 1.2.25/1.0.4 combo only gets slow, and stays slow, if I walk my laptop to a part of the house where my signal isn't so great. Once it gets slow, it won't speed up without a disconnect/reconnect. The stock Gutsy iwl3945 and ipw3945 will randomly, and quite regularly, get slow while I'm right within a few feet of my access point. I've only been running 1.2.25/1.0.4 for about a day so far, but it hasn't slowed down 'on its own' yet. My cheater fix to speed up the stock iwl3945 when it got stuck in the mud was to 'rfkill; sleep 5;un-rfkill' from the command line. That would normally speed things up for a few minutes, killing it for less than 5 seconds didn't usually fix things. What is would be the process to get the updated iwl drivers in place for Hardy? -- major throughput difference (between upload and download) when using iwl3945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176271 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
