[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Thu Oct 2 16:22:20 CEST 2008

El día Thursday, October 02, 2008 a las 06:19:30AM -0700, vale escribió:
>> calm down,
>> its a fact, that freerunners wlan is far away from optimum. 
>> try a wget shortly after doing ifup eth0 -> everything works
> try wget some minutes later (no suspend/resume in between) from same server
> -> no download, even if ping still works
> ifdown eth0, ifup eth0 -> wget works again
>> same with opkg install, update, upgrade etc.
>> under 2007.2, 2008.08, debian ...
>> -> wlan drivers not working well

I can't ACK that anymore; I have wget ten times a file of 22 MByte right
now:
# for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ; do rm file ; wget http://albatros/share/sisis-dev/guru/file; done
Connecting to albatros (10.0.1.98:80)
file 100%
|************************************************************| 22942k 00:00:00 ETA
.... (10x) ....
without any kind of hick-ups;
and the interface does not show any kind of error:
root at om-gta02:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:CF:8E:FC:5F 
 inet addr:10.0.1.217 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
 inet6 addr: fe80::212:cfff:fe8e:fc5f/64 Scope:Link
 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
 RX packets:285483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:121870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
 RX bytes:431367301 (411.3 MiB) TX bytes:9439240 (9.0 MiB)
root at om-gta02:~# iwlist eth0 scan
eth0 Scan completed :
 Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:E2:A1:76:0B
 ESSID:"santaclara"
 Mode:Master
 Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
 Quality=16/94 Signal level=-79 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
 Encryption key:on
 Extra:bcn_int=100
 Extra:wpa_ie=...
i.e. Wifi for me it works fine now;
	matthias
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