Laptop performs really slow when running from wifi

[David Curtis]

On Nov 20, 2007 8:24 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com
> <mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Anyone else have any suggestion as to why my laptop crawls after
>     running for a while on ONLY wifi?
> 
>     Should I downgrade it to feisty fawn? I had no problem with wifi there.
> 
>     What is the simple way to downgrade?
> 
> 

I would assume that since your mouse "flickers" and screen refresh is 
slow that something is consuming a large amounts of cpu. Run 'top' or 
'htop' in a terminal (or tty, ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f7 to return to 
Xorg). The offender should be at the top of the list.

Dave