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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:01:32 -0500
From: Joseph Cheek <joseph@cheek.com>
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] 2.6.27 with compat-wireless-2008-12-31 stops transmitting
 every 2-3 mins
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thanks, Luis!  comments below...

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Thanks for the details, this seems to be related to noise and therefore
> could be due to some issues with how we deal with ANI. We will have to
> try to reproduce this ourselves now and try to fix it.
>   

great!  i wish you luck!  would it help it i try the same test with the
problematic box right next to the AP?  I could move it upstairs to the
same room and retry an SCP or video serve.  not sure if that would give
you more useful data or not, but i can certainly move it.

if the box were quiet enough, i would keep it in the same room and just
connect via ethernet 8-).

>> I can try anything you need me to with respect to ath9k drivers or
>> kernels.  does it matter if bluetooth and/or ipv6 is enabled?  both are
>> enabled on this box but not on my laptop?
>>     
>
> Anything communication on the same spectrum affects your 802.11 connection,
> so using the microwave oven, using bluetooth, or a 2.4 GHz home phone should
> affet your connection. Not sure the freq used by Xbox / PS3 controllers...
> Bluetooth particularly should affect your 802.11 connection and we only recently
> added bluetooth coexistance to help with this but this is only available for
> more modern cards so your card does not have this feature.
>
> If you are using bluetooth then it should affect your connection if using the
> 2.4 GHz spectrum on your wirless AP.
>   

I didn't actually have the bluetooth in use, just the module built.  so
that might not be the problem.  the DIR-655 will do 5MHz only if it's in
n-only mode, and I have too many g devices in the house to want to
replace them all 8-).

>   Luis
>