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jak3b

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 6

dropping wireless connection

Hello,
Ive been using Arch on my dell inspiron 1500.It uses b43 for the wireless.I use wicd to connect.Its all good except lately when doing a pacman -Syu or using transmission or anytime downloading a large file as soon as the DL speed goes above 1mb a sec I get kicked off line and have to reconnect.Any Ideas.Thanks in advance

lagagnon

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Re: dropping wireless connection

Is your signal strength adequate? You may experience speed reductions and dropouts with marginal wifi signal strength.

Use: "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" to show text-based signal strengths and report back...

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jak3b

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: dropping wireless connection

Is your signal strength adequate? You may experience speed reductions and dropouts with marginal wifi signal strength.

Use: "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" to show text-based signal strengths and report back...

Here it is:
[me@lappy ~]$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:3F:7F:5B:1E
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=57/70  Signal level=-53 dBm 
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"JBSF"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=0000019500c765cb
                    Extra: Last beacon: 36ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 00044A425346
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
                    IE: Unknown: 030101
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 2F0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
                    IE: Unknown: DD090010180200F0000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00

The wireless router is about 4' away on the other side of a wall.It only cuts out when downloading a large file and the dl speed goes above 1 MB a second.