Yep, you or your neighbor was either using a 2.4Ghz cordless phone, or a microwave. Also, the X10 wireless video links are 2.4Ghz, and very noisy. This is almost certainly the cause. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Hicks [mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:06 AM > To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org > Subject: [TCWUG] WAP11 slow link > > > Hey everyone, > > Has anyone seen access points suddenly start running at very > low speeds, > even though the link has still negotiated to 11Mbps? I was > having trouble > yesterday, as the Linksys WAP11 in my apartment was only allowing data > transfers of 16kByte/s. Rebooting the access point brought > it back up to > full speed. > > This may have coincided with my roommate resuming his WinXP > laptop from > hibernate -- he has some weird problem where the system takes several > minutes to re-associate with the AP, and it's usually faster > for him to > reboot both XP and the access point. He's using an Orinoco > Silver card. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The cost of feathers has > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ risen, even down is up! > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | > mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] >