Dropped Wireless? How Are You Coping?
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Lately I have been struggling with a serious throughput issue on my notebook to the degree that I would have to stop my wireless card, then completely reconnect it. After checking things out, it seemed that it wasn’t actually my wireless MIMO card, running on Ubuntu Gutsy with Wicd (testing version) on WPA2. Rather, it appeared to be some sort of data drop-off somewhere along the line at the router level.
After trying everything short of killing off WPA, I opted for the following solution. Instead of messing with my router’s MTU settings, I decided to try tweaking my RTS Threshold settings in my advanced wireless settings just a tiny bit. It defaults to 2346 as is, so I set the router to 2046. Again, I was careful not to mess with any other settings whatsoever. Rebooted the router and by George - success. My connection has improved significantly and I have not felt any loss of throughput despite the settings change. The problem is completely gone.
So what say you? Have you had wireless issues that through some tweaking, found solutions to? Share them with us in the comments area.
[tags]wireless, MIMO, routers[/tags]
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Bryan Price
October 16th, 2007
at 8:23pm
Hmmm. I’ve been experiencing issues with my laptop, but it appears that it’s just overheating of the PCMCIA card. I tell Windows to “eject” it, take it out, let it cool (takes a minute if that) and then I’m good for another 24-48 hours — if I keep the laptop up that long. But I usually don’t, so I don’t normally see it happen. But I got to do that today.
One would think that it would take less time than that from reaching temp. Unless something is happening to the driver, and shutting it down and reinserting restarts the driver. :/ Maybe it’s time to see if there’s a newer driver out there. Sigh.