Comment 291 for bug 461419
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| Prunus dulcis (prunus-dulcis) wrote Re: [Karmic] Atheros AR5211 - ath5k driver connection and performance issues | #291 |
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The symptoms I am seeing after having completed step two are transfer rate drops to zero (which can last up to 20 seconds), very low transfer rates (no more than 2 or 3 kb per second for several minutes) and overall very heavy spikes (transfer rate drops from 2 mb to 50 kb then goes up again - this cycle can last half an hour before the transfer rate normalizes - it usually becomes a lot better after reconnecting to the wireless network).
I too hope that this bug can be fixed VERY soon, since my brain already started thinking about installing MS Windows again, which is something I really would want to avoid if possible, but this bug is persevering now for such a long time, that it is starting to feel, it will never get fixed.
This is not meant as devaluing the wonderful work of the developers, but a bug like this can do this to you after a few months with unreliable internet access - things like internet telephone and sometimes even chat are important for me and not really a good idea half the time because of the heavy up-down spikes :-(