Slowness - 2.6.8

Hello,

I have recently (this week) downloaded the latest CVS snapshot for my 
WUSB11 2.8 and am having serious speed issues. In addition, I get the 
periodic freeze when running anything interactive (ssh).

uname: Linux myhost 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 #7 SMP Thu Sep 23 22:56:10 PDT 2004 
i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

What are the recommendations for beginning to troubleshoot? So far I've 
performed some general transfer tests such as:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1024K count=10
scp test.img @testmachine:

test.img	100%	10MB	269.5KB/s	00:38 
 


This is actually quite a bit better than previous tests which showed 
about 50KB/s. I still receive the periodic freezes. Perhaps it's just an 
adjustment of my expectations that is needed.


iwconfig:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Silly"  Nickname:"okuwlan"
           Mode:Managed  Channel:1  Access Point: 00:02:2D:08:9C:C5
           Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
           Retry limit:8   RTS thr=1536 B   Fragment thr=1536 B
           Encryption key:7333-636D-33   Security mode:open
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0/0  Signal level:107/255  Noise level:0/0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Thanks in advance.

-r