It's worth noting that in my case, the strange part is that the problem cropped up only days after the erroneous AP was turned on; and three other notebooks (heavy network users) on the premises had no problems (macos, windows, and ubuntu 10.04 on a thinkpad x200). Not that I expect my bad network environment to work correctly, just odd that the other PCs handled the situation without a problem.
It's worth noting that in my case, the strange part is that the problem cropped up only days after the erroneous AP was turned on; and three other notebooks (heavy network users) on the premises had no problems (macos, windows, and ubuntu 10.04 on a thinkpad x200). Not that I expect my bad network environment to work correctly, just odd that the other PCs handled the situation without a problem.