Mike Hicks wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Has anyone seen access points suddenly start running at very low speeds, > even though the link has still negotiated to 11Mbps? I was having trouble > yesterday, as the Linksys WAP11 in my apartment was only allowing data > transfers of 16kByte/s. Rebooting the access point brought it back up to > full speed. What rev of the firmware is the WAP11 running ? I saw similar behaviour (though throughput would sometimes grind to a complete halt too) using 1.4h3, it went away when I upgraded to 1.4i1 and it has been running fine ever since. It seemed to be related to SNMP access to the WAP11, but I never fully characterised the connection (if any.) Is it still running on the default channel (6) ? If so, you might want to try moving it (up) to see if that improves things. Try 11 since that does not overlap at all with the semi-universal default of channel 6. > This may have coincided with my roommate resuming his WinXP laptop from > hibernate -- he has some weird problem where the system takes several > minutes to re-associate with the AP, and it's usually faster for him to > reboot both XP and the access point. He's using an Orinoco Silver card. Does the profile specify the SSID ? If it's left open, then Orinocos can take a long time to make their choice - specifying the SSID really speeds this up. -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634