I have a Sony Vaio VPCF11S1E/B. Executing "lspci | grep -i network"
produces:

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200
(rev 35)

I am running the final release of 11.04 (all updates have been applied).

WiFi network functionality is unreliable, this is especially apparent
when streaming (watching YouTube) or trying to download large files
(anything around the 1GB mark). Everything starts off fine, but within
minutes the download (or stream) will grind to a halt. I have tried
stream and downloading the same files when I boot into Windows 7, and
everything works without any problems. Also, running speedtest
(http://www.speedtest.net/) the results are consistently 33% slower in
11.04 compared to Windows 7 or another laptop running 10.10 (friend's
laptop). In 11.04 it "feels" like the downstream is capped at 20Mb/s.

This is a difficult problem to pin-point (for me) as initially I thought
it may be the server(s) I'm downloading from or my ISP. However, after
running a battery of downloads (torrents, podcasts, linux distros) and
repeatedly watching YouTube clips on both Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7, I
can confidently say that the problem lies within Ubuntu 11.04
(somewhere).

It's so annoying that I cannot continue using Ubuntu 11.04 as I can't
even watch a 10 minute YouTube clip without the stream freezing within 2
or so minutes. I hope that a true fix will appear soon as I dread the
thought of returning to Windows 7.

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Title:
  iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

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