** Description changed:

+ SRU Justification:
+ 
+ Impact: When the wifi signal is weak, the rt73usb driver has a poor
+ performance
+ 
+ Fix: Two patches, one to take hardcoded values for certain timings
+ (which proved to be better) and one to report the retry and fail count
+ to mac80211.
+ 
+ Testcase: Results in a clean open site environment:
+ 
+ Signal Level      Driver without these patches       Driver with these patches
+                         (downlink) / (uplink)                    (downlink) / 
(uplink)
+     -40                  23.68 / 21.73                           22.94 / 21.41
+     -62                  24.62 / 21.87                           22.33 / 21.08
+     -67                   5.25 / 2.67                              11.83 / 
10.47
+     -82                   0.16 / 0                                   0.16 / 
0.6
+     (dbm)                  (in Mbps)                             (in Mbps)
+ 
  Binary package hint: linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-24-lpia
- 
- When the wifi signal is weak, the rt73usb driver has a poor performance

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rt73usb performance poor when weak signal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444377
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