I've recently started testing my laptop with Ubuntu's 9.04 alpha releases (64 bit version).
$ modinfo ath5k filename: /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko version: 0.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL) Since the change, wireless network connections haven't seemed quite right. Throughput and connectivity both seemed to be somewhat problematic. General web browsing was sluggish with many pages either taking an extremely long time to load or requiring a second/third request to get them to load at all. Torrents would appear to stutter (short bursting downloads followed by fairly long lulls of no transfers). I also noticed frequent network disconnects and reconnects even in areas with good coverage and strong signal. I know the above sounds extremely subjective. However, since switching from the ath5k driver to the ath9k driver overall throughput has been vastly improved. The very same torrents that were stuttering before suddenly held consistent activity with throughput 2-3x what had been seen at any point with the ath5k driver. Web pages are no longer sluggish in loading, nor do they require more than one request. And I have yet to see a disconnect and reconnect in well covered areas. What I'm wondering is how I can go about gathering useful information about the problematic performance I'm seeing for the ath5k developers? -- Jamin W. Collins _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
