lots of "Frames Received With Errors"

[tvmann]

I just got a new Toshiba notebook that has an internal Atheros 5001X 802.11B/G device. Also got a Linksys WRT54G wireless modem - I have it set to "G" only.

Everything seems to work great, I set up a little Windows XP home network and can designate folders on the notebook or on my desktop Dell tower as shared and copy files back and forth with great ease. Speedy too at a net rate of about 13 mbit/sec going through a few walls but should it be faster? I'm running WEP 64 bit encryption and as a test I turned off WEP and to my surprise the transfer speed dropped to about 5 mbit/sec (I expected it would be fastest with no encryption).

The main thing I'm wondering about is the Atheros utility on the notebook shows a very large number of "Frames Received With Errors" (53,000) almost the same number as the "Frames Received OK" (47,000). It shows no encryption errors (using WEP 64) and about 10,000 duplicate frames. Is the high number of Error frames an indication of a problem - or are the errors just a normal thing that is fixed up on the receiving end by parity bits or something similar?

[masraum]

I can't say definitively, but I also get a fair amount of errors and issues on mine. I have a Dlink card with the Atheros driver and Linkmon. I think it's just an issue with wifi, but since I'm more used to wired networks it seems excessive to me

[cjp]

Just a wild guess. Is there a "protection mode" button that you can push? This smells like a co-channel B/G interference problem that G packets are corrupted by nearby B devices. The B devices are on a different network but the same channel. Just switch to a different channel and see if things improve.

-CJP