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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.16-gitX] heavy performance regression in ipw2200 wireless
	driver
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:41:14 +0800
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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
>  client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
>  usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
>  sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
>  shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
>  order of magnitude.

What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
and retest.

Thanks,
-yi