Re: Annoying Wireless - Suggestions?

[Tim Hart <codermsu@gmail.com>]

I'm using a Linksys AE1000 usb card for 5ghz wireless-n.  I'm using
the rt3572sta driver built from source.

It is a ralink chipset.  Ralink has released source code for linux
support and updates them rather infrequently.  I had to add the usb
dev id to the source and change some of the default build
configuration options for support with wpa_supplicant.  It took a lot
of trial and error, but it now works great using wireless-n on Ubuntu
Lucid.

Occasionally, the card loses connectivity and doesn't reconnect
automatically (I have to take down the wireless interface and bring it
back up to find my wireless-n AP), but this is rare and I haven't had
time to investigate.

I am using wireless-n because I live in an apartment and I stream
high-definition movies over nfs4 to xbmc a distance that I can't
easily conceal cat5e.  If you are just surfing the web, wireless-n
isn't going to give you much benefit.

My suggestion: Use wireless as a last resort.

tim

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Scott Duensing <scott@jaegertech.com> wrote:
> It's anytime I'm connected with 802.11n.  I can be in the middle of
> surfing or whatever - doesn't matter.  No "usual" amount of time
> between dropouts either.  If I turn the card off using the keyboard
> shortcut, unload the kernel module, reload the kernel module, and then
> toggle it back on, it'll reconnect.
>
> I think my solution is going to be a new card.  :-/  NDISWrapper can't
> load the WinXP64 driver for the card and neither can DriverLoader.  Oh
> well.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Nathan Nutter <iam@nnutter.com> wrote:
>> Scott, have you noticed whether this occurs after the computer goes to
>> sleep or is just randomly while the computer is in use? Do you ever
>> use Wi-Fi elsewhere and does the issue go away? Is there any pattern
>> that you can see as to how/when it occurs?
>>
>> --Nathan
>>
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