Found some relevant comments about why the speed of the connection may be lower than expected. http://lwn.net/Articles/278191/
To quote it here:
"At the moment the semi-free madwifi is more reliable than ath5k with 2.6.25-rc kernels[*], due
(I suspect) to problems with the mac80211 layer being rather too aggressive in reducing the
link speed in face of less than ideal signal conditions. Signal quality/level monitoring
(using wavemon) suggests that unsmoothed values are causing the rate algorithms to believe
that conditions are worse than they actually are. I see similar problems with the in-kernel
rt2500 driver."
Found some relevant comments about why the speed of the connection may be lower than expected. lwn.net/ Articles/ 278191/
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To quote it here:
"At the moment the semi-free madwifi is more reliable than ath5k with 2.6.25-rc kernels[*], due
(I suspect) to problems with the mac80211 layer being rather too aggressive in reducing the
link speed in face of less than ideal signal conditions. Signal quality/level monitoring
(using wavemon) suggests that unsmoothed values are causing the rate algorithms to believe
that conditions are worse than they actually are. I see similar problems with the in-kernel
rt2500 driver."
And in another comment from there
"It appears to be tweakable via debugfs." - http:// linuxwireless. org/en/ developers/ Documentation/ mac80211/ RateControl/ PID
Hope this is helpful to some ...