Phil's Wifi (was HELP WINDOWS XP

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Haney wrote:

> Phil Bieber wrote:

>> This is not my thread, 

it is now :-)

>> but I'll briefly outline my wifi "performance" 
> 
> Sounds to me like the wireless settings just need tweaking on your system.

Yeah.  For instance, I ran my broadcom wireless under ndiswrapper on a
2.6.22 kernel, because it was more reliable than the native bcm43xx driver. 
When I upgraded my kernel (to 2.6.26 because 2.6.24 never worked for me)
wireless got really flakey.  It turned out I was still running a years-old
firmware (in fact, the kernel reported support would be discontinued in
July 2008 - which sounds suspiciously like "out of warranty" syndrome!). 
Upgrading to the correct firmware has improved performance phenomenally.

So tell us what type of wifi you have, and what chipset.
-- 
derek