Slow Wireless = Slow Machine

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vetran replied

18 April 2010, 13:31
Had some real issues with our 6930 laptops wireless, upgrade of bios & Intel drivers fixed it. Is suspect this may be related.

Oh and yes slow network will stop everything I have a vague memory that the stack is single threaded and has blocking locks.

Last edited by vetran; 18 April 2010, 13:35.
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MarillionFan replied

17 April 2010, 08:05
Grrrrrrrrrrr! Known problem with the HP Touchsmart 600.

Looks like rushed to market too soon.

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/TouchSm...e/td-p/166220/
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MarillionFan started a topic Slow Wireless = Slow Machine

17 April 2010, 07:31
Slow Wireless = Slow Machine

Confused by this?

Was having some intermittent broadband problems yesterday(or thats how it seems).

Got an HP Touchsmart 600PC with the following spec

Data Link Protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, IEEE 802.11n
• Compliant Standards: IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0, IEEE 802.11n
Type: Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 / 2.13 GHz
• Multi-Core Technology: Dual-Core

Any broadband was running OK and had three bars at distance, but when connection was made using wireless the machine ground to a halt. The mouse would jerk across the screen, windows explorer would hang(now moved to Chrome), unable to type.

Took ages to work out, but eventually just disconnected the wireless connection. Speed seemed OK but was bouncing between 1MPS - 54MPS, but I was unable to ascertain what the issues was.

What I dont understand is how on earth the whole machine grinds to a halt when the wireless is being a little intermittent? CPU was normal?

Sat on my Mac, obviously with a slower connection, but absolutely no degradation on the performance of the rest of the machine.

I was also able to pick up another wireless connection last night, but unable to see that now. Speed now back to 54mps

Is there something I need to configure/do? Does this indicate an issue with the network card? Nothing in Norton to suggest anything.No idea what to look at just yet???

Any ideas?

Last edited by MarillionFan; 17 April 2010, 07:37.
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