I got a job at a small office that uses wireless as its only network media.
I have an internal PCI Atheros wireless N card in my desktop, and it works
fantastic on Windows 7. However, on FreeBSD it does some horrible things:
Connection drops permanently after some inactivity (solved by leaving a ping running) and
DNS lookups take a load of time to complete (about a second each), which is
remedied by leaving dnsmasq running and setting nameserver to 127.0.0.1.
I also experience random short connection drops (not enough to affect browsing, but enough to make scp scary).
I do *not* want to use Cygwin, but wireless performance might make me.
Please help me diagnose this.
I have an internal PCI Atheros wireless N card in my desktop, and it works
fantastic on Windows 7. However, on FreeBSD it does some horrible things:
Connection drops permanently after some inactivity (solved by leaving a ping running) and
DNS lookups take a load of time to complete (about a second each), which is
remedied by leaving dnsmasq running and setting nameserver to 127.0.0.1.
I also experience random short connection drops (not enough to affect browsing, but enough to make scp scary).
I do *not* want to use Cygwin, but wireless performance might make me.
Please help me diagnose this.