Comment 305 for bug 621265

I also performed the rmmod/modprobe followed by the wget below.

   sudo rmmod iwl3945 iwlcore mac80211 cfg80211
   sudo modprobe iwl3945
   wget -b http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

The snippet from attached wget-log.txt that points out the slowdown is:

  1600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 315K 36m56s
  1650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 405K 36m42s
  1700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 158K 37m47s
  1750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 124K 39m22s

I stopped the download at the 1% mark as it didn't change significantly.