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Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s. > - ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds. Hmm I see the rtl8192e driver has also gone need to buy another device. Looks like staging is closing down sale. Yeah okay from me to delete vt6656_stage it will be stable for a few years. Regards Malcolm