From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Ran into a vaguely similar last-straw problem today with my wireless   
   >dongle. It seems that Realtek's driver module, built for an earlier   
   >kernel, the only module I've used that makes the dongle work anywhere   
   >near right with Mageia 2,   
      
   Have you had any other module work with other distributions?   
      
   >has an unfortunate side effect. Using it draws my USB bus speed down   
   >to a crawl. If I boot without the dongle plugged in, so the module   
   >isn't loaded, files will transfer from my external hard drive at a   
   >reasonable 32MB/sec. But, if the dongle is plugged in so the module   
   >is activated, the rate slips to a slovenly 1MB/sec.   
      
   That's a ``requirement'' of USB.  Essentially, USB might be able to   
   scream at 5 GB/sec (USB 3.0), but the entire link works at the speed   
   of the slowest peripheral.   
      
   >This is indeed the last straw. I hate to give up on something that   
   >*ought* to work, but there comes a time when losses must be cut. I   
   >don't pay me enough to deal with this crap.   
      
   You might complain to the boss/owner, but I understand he's equally   
   a stick-in-the-mud.   
      
   >Right now the computer is within cable range of the router, so I   
   >don't really need a wireless connection for it.   
      
   Never a problem here - I actually updated the file-server NICs and the   
   Ethernet switches to 1000BaseT (rest of the systems are 100BaseT), so   
   local transfers are relatively quick.   I have a wireless capability,   
   but only the two laptops have wireless interfaces, and when used at   
   home, they use the 100MB wired network because it's faster.  Of course,   
   connections to/from the world are slower, and even switched 10BaseT is   
   faster than that most of the time.   
      
   >But for the time when I do, it's time to start looking for a PCI card,   
   >like I should have done in the first place.   
      
   One of the things I managed to get done in the days before we moved in   
   to this place is install plastic (Sched-40) pipe in the walls, so now   
   I can fish in fiber if I wanted to (right now, each has two or four   
   4-pair cables) to each room.  Would be easier if I had a cellar, but   
   the modern way seems to be concrete slabs (which is helpful given the   
   weight of the book-cases).   
      
           Old guy   
      
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