Hi Niskitonf I can confirm that with my Asus / AMD Athlon and Belkin card system - changing from 54M to 11M seems to have cleared the bug - I haven't crashed once since the mod.
Thanks for that Niskitonf - I have been without a stable system since I upgraded to Hardy Heron back about Easter. What a relief and luxury not to have to re-boot 7 times a night. Just wish Ubuntu spent more time getting their priorities right. I very nearly gave up and installed a different distro. Your solution came just as I was about to change for good. We must be able to connect to the internet or we will always look elsewhere - when will programmers learn this priority. Keep the customer at all costs and worry about luxuries later is basic business sense. I would have been so sad as Hardy seems to be easily my best distro yet. It is so much better than Vista; but then, so is everything else including XP - he he. Ta Vici niskitonf wrote: > I have an Edimax EW7128g, using the ralink RT61 driver, which apparently > should "work out of the box" on Ubuntu Hardy > (http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/). Anyway, it does, > and iwconfig shows that it is correctly recognised as connecting via 54M > 11g . However, download speed is approximately 1Mbps (compared to 10Mbps > on Windows), and upload around 200Kbps (compared to 4Mbps). I also > experience random freezes whilst downloading large files (see separate > bug for other reports on similar freezes > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/228633). When I place the > computer next to the wireless router, the signal strength is around 50%. > Strangely, after moving to another room with 3 intervening walls, the > signal strength increases to 60%, although the download speed decreases. > > Downloading the backport modules as suggested above does not help. > Interestingly, if I change the speed of the connection to 11M by typing > "iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M", the download speed increases to around 4Mbps, > and the upload speed to around 2Mbps when I am next to the router. Now, > moving into the other room again, where the signal strength is around > 60%, the download speed decreases to about 700Kbps, but the upload speed > remains at 2Mbps. Windows achieves the same speeds (10Mbps and 4Mbps for > download and upload respectively) wherever I place the computer. > > So far, it seems that the freezing only occurs when the rate is set to > 54M, and not when it is set to 11M. > > I am running Hardy, with kernel 2.6.24-19. > > I have not yet tried ndiswrapper on the windows driver, but thought my > observations may possibly be of interest/use to someone. > > -- [Hardy] Low bandwidth with rt2400 / rt2500 drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190515 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
