On 27 Jun, David Konerding wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >>On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 12:25, Derek B. Noonburg wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hm, that would make sense. I assume that some sort of hardware problem >>>in the network card (flakey radio, bad antenna connection, ...) could >>>cause layer-1 retransmits? >>> >>> >> >>Yes, it certainly could. You'll also see insane latency with weak >>signals (in normal operation with good hardware). So anything that would >>make the card think there was a weak signal would certainly do it, too. >> >> > I'm the OP. I saw "insane latency" even with strong signals (as > reported by the Linksys NIC software). > Should I still consider returning the card to Linksys?
In my case, I was also seeing the problem with strong signals. I moved the AP to be right next to the laptop, and the problem persisted. Since the replacement card fixed the problem, I'm assuming it was a hardware problem. Come to think of it, the signal strength (as reported by the Windows driver dialog or by iwconfig on Linux) looked pretty strange while it was suffering from the low bandwidth problem. If there was no traffic, the strength looked fine. As soon as I started sending something, the strength dropped off. I wrote this off as yet another symptom of the same hardware problem. - Derek -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
