On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 02:37, Nathan Conrad wrote: > Hi, > > My laptop has a 1.2 GHz Athlon4 CPU. I also have a wireless card. I > think that I've noticed that with high CPU usage, the quality of my > wireless connection goes down a lot. But, when I use cpufreq to scale > the CPU frequency to something lower, I seem to get better network > throughput. > > Is this common to laptops? or should I demand that Best Buy replace my > laptop because it is broken? > > -Nathan
Make sure you know what you are measuring. If you are measuring throughput based on file downloads across the network, then you might simply be measuring your HD's ability to write/read to disk. Older laptops have notoriously slow IDE drives (whose throughput is a function of the available cpu). NMH - Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
