On , Anders Eriksson wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue which I can't really narrow down and it might > be wlan related. > It occurs both from a couple of PCs sharing a rt2500 to the internet, > and a iwl3945 (no sharing) to the net. > > The thing is that, normal sufing works ok. But, whenever there > is a big > download going on (say grabbing a kernel tarball), the > interactive performace > drops to pretty much nothing. Getting a prompt from ssh can > take close to a > minute. I'm thinking tha, tperhaps, there is someting buffer related > which makes the wlan buffers "deeper than normal" and thus makes it > hard for the interactive tcp's to crate room for themselves in the > transmission queues or > somehting. > > I can't recall seeing this phenomenon over a wired connection (with > roughly the same link bandwidths.) > > Dows this sound at all familiar? If so, what's the cure? (I'd rather > not go into traffic shaping...) > Which version of the iwl3945 driver are you using? The iwl3945 recently received some patches to fix its rate scaling ... see http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120485409525437&w=2. Can you test the latest iwl3945 driver from wireless-testing? Thanks Reinette -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
