Just about driven to pull my hair out with Firefox

[Colin Law]

On 27 September 2010 09:31, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to update this thread as I seem to have found the cause
> of my problems with pages stalling in Firefox (and other browsers). In
> the end, it looks like maybe my hardware (the Atheros AR2413 chip)
> isn't well supported by the ATH5K wireless drivers. I'm not making
> this statement based on any large amount of research I've done, though
> it does seem like others are having similar problems with this
> hardware, but rather from practical experience: plugging a network
> cable into the laptops network port.
>
> After I plugged in the cable, I disabled wireless and my machine is
> working flawlessly.  No stalls, no slow loading pages, nothing. I plan
> on doing more testing to make sure I'm correct, but it looks like
> slightly unsupported hardware.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to post this in case anyone else might be having
> similar problems. Yes, I know it's short on technical details but
> that's all I have at the moment.

Have you checked that there is not another wireless node on the same
(or close) channel nearby?  I have experienced intermittent problems
such as you describe caused by this.  Also interference from other
wireless equipment can, I believe, cause such problems.

Colin