Anyone experiencing slowness on wifi when on the battery? Thanks Zach
nope. Maybe you could try changing the power saving to normal from maximum in the atheros driver options in device manager? I had no slowness issues at all with XP on 3 cell or 6 cell (could download at 800kBps sustained).
Yeah I have. Changing the power save mode settings didn't help for me either. I only receive half of the speed compared to my HP & Apple Powerbook G4 (all three are 801.1/g compatible and speeds at "54mbps").
Mine shows connected at 54 the speeds just dont reflect it on battery. If I do a trace route and unplug the cable half into the trace and my response time jumps from 10ms to 800ms.
In XP, I notice wireless network slowness every time after powering on from standby. If I reboot and power up from scratch the network speed is back to normal. Wireless driver is up to date, have not checked bios yet. Anyone else notice this? Or, anyone notice a network performance change after bios update?
Yep - same problem here. Whenever I run on battery I'm finding Wi-Fi speed dropping to about 10% of what I would expect. Running next to my Mac laptop and my desktop I find it's taking the One almost 10 times as long to load or download - plug it in to the wall and all finish pretty much the same. Getting same problem with iPlayer and Youtube ... definately a problem somewhere.
Changed the power options as suggested by goofball above and it seems to have made an instant improvement ... will give it a thorough check and report back. But here's an early "Thanks" goofball as it's looking good.
Ok ... ran a few tests and it's all sorted. Problem was definately the Wi-Fi card running in low power mode for me. Changed settings via Control Panel/System/Device Manager ... selected Network Adaptor/Atheros Wi-Fi ... Properties and then in Advanced Options set the Power Saving Mode to Normal. This briefly disconnected the card then reconnected at improved throughput. Tried previous tests in page load, iPlayer and YouTube and it all looks good.
I noticed mine to be slow too so I did what crowman and goofball said and now its up 2 speed like when its plugged in. Thanks for the help.
Mine is set to : 802.11b preamble. It has a listing of other settings (map registers, MFP, etc) but nothing that says normal.
Do you have a tab for Power Management?[/quote] Not within the Systems option. I have Power Options for the battery.
Just noticed there is a power management tab within the Realtek nic but not within the atheros wireless.
jagfan - sounds different. To get to my settings (in a bit more detail) I go to Control Panel and select 'System', within here hit the 'Hardware' tab and then the 'Device Manager' button. Open up the 'Network Adaptors' drop down and right click on the Atheros card. Select 'Properties' and then the 'Advanced' tab. This brings up a selector that has (as you mentioned) 802.11b Preamble at the top. About half way down the box is 'Power Save Mode' ... which when clicked on can be set to 'Normal'. Sorry if this sounds obvious but just wanted to make sure we are looking at the same thing. Have you updated the Atheros Wi-Fi drivers yet ?? Just ask as I haven't thus far and I wonder if this is something to do with updated drivers ?? Crowman
Got it thanks - didn't realize moving down the list to power save mode would provide the needed options. No, I haven't updated any drivers as of yet.
Hi Tried it changed properties to normal from max pwr save signal strength reported as 'good' but the radio channel started to stutter abit...so changed back signal strength reported 'very good' radio channel stops stuttering and plays smoothly. BBC IPlayer I got no problems in the the day from 9.30 right through to 7.00pm then it starts breaking up. Similar thing with UTube. This I put down to my lousy ISP bot having the capacity to handle the traffic as all the ppl come home from school/work.....no question of it from where I;m sitting my AA1 has got excellent wifi right out of the box
