Hello fellow Netstumites (is that correct?)
Let me express my situation. I work for a University that has implemented a campus wide wireless system. We used netstumbler to gauge coverage in certain areas. Recently we have discovered a problem... when testing on a certain notebook (Toshiba Tecra) we noticed that performance results decrease drastically while Netstumbler is open.
This doesn't happen on any of our other notebooks, just the Toshiba Tecra so I am lead to believe that there is a problem with the actual notebook itself. Our wireles network is capped at 1Mbps... while doing tests with netstumbler we get internal (IPERF) as 200 +/- 50 kbps and without netstumbler we get 950 +/- kbps. We also get the same results while doing external tests through speedtest.cogeco.net
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have tried everything I could think of. Any help would be appriciated. We have even formatted the laptop; I believe the problem lies within the stock Atheros chipset.
Thanks so much for your help!