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Is there a reason that wifi on Vista seems faster/more reliable than on Windows? Does this vary be distro? Or wifi card? I have an Atheros b/g/n card and it seems like if I stay in the same location Vista outperforms Ubuntu 9.10 in this area.
Because people from windows pay to hardware manufactures to make hardware only for their drivers, or they pay them for information about hardware.
Linux is free, developers can't pay for drivers. They can't fight with microsoft for equal rights on hardware.
Microsoft bought them all long time ago, and it is good for manufactures and for microsoft - they have never had any problems. What for others - they do not care.
So...it's like...the windows drivers are specifically designed to use everything about the wifi card..where the linux drivers are more basic functionally ?
To make proper driver for any hardware one need to know full hardware specifications. Does microsoft want that hardware works on linux as good as it works on windows. I think they do not. So, hardware manufactures do not give Linux developers technical information how to write drivers. But some do, for example Ralink, I have got their USB wireless and it works even better on Linux then on windows.
Take a look at two companies, Intel and Broadcom. Intel supports its linux drivers and as a result, performance on Linux and Windows are similar. Broadcom on the other hand has only recently started to support Linux so the most common drivers for Broadcom's junk (b43) is the result of some very dedicated people reverse-engineering the things. The result is a driver that works, but not as well as one written with full information.
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