Information about the wireless: The Access Point is a Belkin Wireless G Router (partnumber F5D7230fd4). The wireless is encrypted using WPA-PSK and the access point has MAC-address filtering turned on. Because it works OK with ndiswrapper I assume that using WPA-PSK and MAC address filtering does not have to degrade the performance, but maybe it impacts the ath5k driver, so I thought I would mention it.
I have also tried both with and without WPA-PSK and with and without MAC address filtering in the router. The browsing breaks as soon as WPA-PSK is used. Without encryption the browsing is OK although it is somewhat slower compared to net5211 & ndiswrapper (1,6MBps vs 2.2MBps for ndiswrapper). MAC address filtering on/off makes no noticeble difference. This testing was done with the ubuntu kernel (not mainline). I did an ifdown wlan2 after every test, and before reconfiguring the laptop and the router if needed, and ifup wlan2 before each test (no reboots). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/700486 Title: ath5k slow on small transfers -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
