Karl Larsen wrote: > I reported what seemed to be against what you were saying. I am not > going to talk wireless extentions because I have no idea what that is. > As I say ifconfig has data on the performance of the wifi on my laptop. > PERIOD! Why don't you just post the output on your computer of ifconfig and iwconfig? Here's mine. As you will see, the information is completely different. --------------------------------------- [tim@carrie tim]$ ifconfig eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:00:16:2A:EA inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:ff:fe16:2aea/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:34213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21916 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:33286696 (31.7 MiB) TX bytes:3762416 (3.5 MiB) Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000 Memory:90301000-90301fff [tim@carrie tim]$ iwconfig eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"dd-wrt" Nickname:"carrie" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:DA:56:B4 Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=61/100 Signal level=-64 dBm Noise level=-88 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:3 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 --------------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland