This is totally new and weird, with too many variables for my pea brain.
Have a home network that runs fine - DSL line with Linksys BEFSX41 router
Wifi is only 802.11b using an old Linksys WAP11 access point... several XP laptops, desktops, Tivo, WET11 bridge + xbox360 all run fine
ok - new to the mix - a Sony Vaio laptop with the Intel 4965AGN internal WiFi card. This laptop is running Vista...
SO - fire it up and test a few things.... Speakeasy speed tests Pingplotter tests
Weird #1 - rampup or TCP sliding window ? Speakeasy - on one download test it showed starting 100k then ramped up to 2400k repeated tests just showed the same ramp-up to 2400k Just turned off the WiFi, and plugged in an ethernet cable consistently at 2400k download - no ramp-up
Weird #2 - Pingplotter using Pingplotter and also having a couple other WiFi laptops running PP had them all ping one of our remote server sites. All the other laptops - had no errors, no packet loss, etc The Sony had from 3% up to 25% packet loss... almost like a repeating cycle. Again - disabled the WiFi and plugged in the cable.... no errors - all good
SO - since both the WiFi and the ethernet cable have to go thru the same TCP/IP stack it can't really be anything new that MS totally changed in the stack (they did totally change it) and it must be something strictly related to the WiFi world ???
Ideas ??