From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <455F6A6C.8010007@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:17:48 +1100
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Getting worse performance with new GenMAC 2.0
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Hi Isaac,

    You know you have to unlock the files before you can load different 
versions "over" the files don't you ? Otherwise you could end up with 
the v 1.6 helper exe and version 2.0 of the driver (the helper exe 
didn't change between v 1.6 and 1.7 I think).

Cheers/2

Ed.

Isaac Leung wrote:
> Well, I'm not so concerned about the actual numbers. But they do seem
> to correlate with perceived performance. Even when I do have
> connection, it seems noticeably slower than with 1.6 no matter where
> or when I'm surfing the web.
> 
> I could kind of live with that, but not with it crapping out or
> failing to acquire.
> 
> This particular laptop just had a fresh (2 weeks old!) install on
> which I put on a clean GenMAC 1.6 install. I then installed right over
> with 2.0 a few days ago and saw the same problems as I did with 1.7 on
> a previous installation. I installed right over again with 1.6 and it
> is very happy now.....mysterious....
> 
> 
> Isaac
> 
> On 11/18/06, Andy Willis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>> Isaac Leung wrote:
>> > Is anyone else seeing the same issue?
>> >
>> > I have a Thinkpad T40p with the built-in wireless (It is Atheros 
>> chipset).
>> > Using GenMAC 1.6 with XWLAN 2.14, it has been pretty much flawless.
>> > (Warp 4.52 with FP5)
>> >
>> > I tried GenMAC 1.7 a while ago, it was worse so I switched back. I
>> > recently upgraded to GenMAC 2.0 with XWLAN 3.0 and it shows the same
>> > behaviour. MUCH worse!
>> >
>> >
>> > Here's the symptoms:
>> > - The reception shows typically 5-10% weaker signal, for whatever
>> > reason. (I'm in a small apartment, so it's easy to be repeatable to be
>> > in the same physical location).
>> > - It takes MUCH longer to acquire IP address, sometimes it fails to
>> > ever acquire unless I ask to "scan for connection" again.
>> > - Connection fails after some time. i.e. I can surf and connect to all
>> > the web sites for about the first 10-15min.  or whatever, but then it
>> > "dies". XWLAN shows green and connected, but I cannot even ping my own
>> > router or any other web site.
>> >
>> >
>> > Any tips or suggestions?
>> > I've reverted back to 1.6 for now since the newer editions are
>> > essentially unuseable for me.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Isaac
>> I had no problems connecting to either of my AP's (home and work) with
>> any 1.x.  It did seem to take quite a while to acquire an IP but I
>> couldn't say it was out of the norm as it has been so long since I
>> connected windows via wireless I don't recall how long it took.  2.0
>> seems to take about as long via a WEP connection but WPA seems to get
>> an IP much faster (there are some variables I need check before I can
>> say that definitively).
>> I have noticed that with genmac 2.0 (whether with wlan 2.14 or 3.0) it
>> does show to have a weaker signal.  What I have not determined as yet
>> is whether the signal is actually weaker or if the guage is more
>> sensitive/accurate.  I have also seen stronger signal than I have ever
>> gotten as well - such as right now I am seeing 100% which the
>> strongest I had ever seen from this AP is 88% and my T42 is/has been
>> literally 3ft directly above the AP.  I have been watching the signal
>> strenght and it has dropped to 86% (which is what it used to mostly
>> sit at) but has mostly been 90 - 100%.  I don't know why it has so
>> much variance which it used to not have but with the range involved
>> 90+% seems more reasonable than 86-88% but the more constant numbers
>> seem more plausible so that one is a hard call.
>> Andy
>>
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