On 06/20/10 21:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > [snip] >> >> torrents over wireless can be very tricky. > > Why? >
I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he is coming from. I have discovered that a buggy driver, or buggy firmware on the wireless card, or both, can cause wireless connectivity problems over time. It doesn't need to be torrents of course, any network traffic will give similar results. In my case, I run a WAP on my Debian router machine and provide WLAN to my home. The driver for the wireless AP card has had problem in the last few years on and off (the Debian package, first madwifi and then hostapd). In every such cases, I have had to restart the wireless driver to get it sort of "reset". It has improved recently though, currently I am not having problems as frequently. So, yes, wireless connections in Linux can be tricky sometimes, but I don't think that is dependent on the type of traffic. A workaround is to restart the networking. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hvmhmv$3e...@dough.gmane.org