Wireless issue with Natty?

[Mister IT Guru]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 10:47 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 5 April 2011 10:44, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru at gmx.com> wrote:
> > I've upgraded a few boxes to 11.04 just to have a look and see how well
> > it performs and everything seems great except for my wireless
> > performance. Now, my wireless connects, but at random intervals it
> > drops. Never had this issue with 10.10 and this seems to be the only
> > issue cropping up on my 11.04 boxes, a macbook pro, a netbook, and a
> > random dell desktop.
> >
> 
> What do they have in common? All broadcom wireless chipsets by any chance?
> 
> There's a known issue with the broadcom driver on the MacBookPro 7,1
> (and maybe other models) which results in degraded performance, but
> don't know about dropping signal.
> 
> Al.
> 
Thanks for the reply. Just to update, some days it's stable for hours, I
make no changes, and it's all good again. I do have very very congested
air space here, (lots of other wifi networks on all the channels), so
that could be a problem. I'm thinking of maybe setting up some sort of
radius server, and leaving my wireless open, but needing to authenticate
- so at least take that away from the equation.

I'm running 11.04 as I said, so I'm updating every very hours! (OCDish,
I know), but hey, that's why I have LAN ports everywhere :)