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ibrahim

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Registered: 2006-02-18

Posts: 53

Slow to connect with ath5k on Samsung nc10

My wireless connection does work but it is generally very slow to connect anything. I notice this most with webpages but it's the same with ssh and pacman upgrades (although most of the repos are on webservers so I guess that's the same thing).

I have noticed that once the connection is made the speed is fine; I just Syu'ed last night and after an excruciating wait to get started the downloads came at about 350-400k according to pacman which is about the same speed I can get with my macbook.

Anyone have any ideas what I can do to improve my connection?

I've installed, several times, a daily build of the wireless drivers from wireless.kernel.org but they've yet to make a difference.

Here are some of my settings

> lsmod | ack ath
ath5k                 100864  0 
mac80211              161184  1 ath5k
led_class               5508  1 ath5k
cfg80211               31760  2 ath5k,mac80211

> hwdetect --show-net 
NET    : sky2 bluetooth mac80211

MODULES=(sky2 ath5k !ath_hal !ath_pci !wlan snd-pcm-oss snd-hda-intel snd-mixer-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd !soundcore acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave !hci_usb)