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SamTheMan

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 7

internet is REALLY SLOW

Hi. I have a DWA-542 (D-Link Rangebooster N) on Arch 64-bit. I am using it with netcfg2 and wpa_supplicant. I have two problems here. One is that it takes way to long to load webpages like google, upwards 15-25seconds (I am on 2mbit cable).

The second is, when I configure it to load up on boot, it fails to connect and find the network. Once im booted up, and I try to do it again, it typically fails here too. However, oddly, on the third time it always works like a charm and im connected. This is my network-profile:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=ath0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="LinkSys"
KEY="mypassphrase"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=20

Oddly, pacman downloads at normal speeds of 500-600kb/s

But when it comes to using a web browser (ive tried like 4 different ones, all the same) or other web based acitivites I'm at like 5kb/s

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"LinkSys"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:1C:F0:EF:AC:4E   
          Bit Rate:18 Mb/s   Tx-Power:19 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=42/70  Signal level=-54 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:32  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The link quaity seems low. I know I should be getting 100% link quality from this location.

Last edited by SamTheMan (2008-03-20 06:31:52)

niller

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 91

Re: internet is REALLY SLOW

I'm not shure but shouldn't

INTERFACE=ath0

be

INTERFACE=eth0

??

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SamTheMan

Member

Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 7

Re: internet is REALLY SLOW

lol no ath0 is the what my wifi card is identified as because is uses the madwifi drivers/ atheros chipset