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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