[Bug 630748] Re: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

[Andrew Henry]

On 20 October 2010 11:21, Christoph Buchner <630748 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
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> because intel are apparently at working fixing the problem in the
> wireless chip's firmware. until they release their bugfix, wireless n
> will remain disabled.

What do you mean firmware?  You mean they are fixing their driver?  If
it was a firmware issue, then it would mean that to get a fix you
would need to buy a new network card/new laptop with updated chipset
firmware to get the fix.

It's obviously not a firmware issue, as wireless N works flawlessly on
Windows with the same chipset.  But it is a bit of a bummer that we
have to put up with disabled wireless n.  In fact, by doing that, it's
making it worse for Ubuntu users, because I did at least have working
wireless N in Ubuntu 10.04, and yeah, it could degrade, but it was
intermittent and to be honest I didn't really notice that much.  Now
when I get an enforced disable from Canonical, I *do* notice that
speeds are slower cause im only running G.

Wouldn't it have been better to give us the choice, simply by doing
nothing and just publishing in the 10.10 release notes that there was
a driver issue and Intel werre working on it?  What is the argument
for actively disabling 802.11n?  I could have quite happily
re-configured my router and laptop so that I only connected to
wireless G if I was that bothered about the N degrading.

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iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session
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