With compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto=1 things seem to work okay so far. I didn't notice any change in performance.
Since switching to iwlwifi things have been okay for down traffic and minor up traffic. However if I scp a large file to another machine then it tends to stall at times. Ping times increases get large something like 800ms versus less then 2ms when not doing the scp up. That interfers with other ssh sessions. With USB rtwn downloads and uploads are a lot faster. I assume this is a known issue. Thanks, Doug A.