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Public bug reported:

Here I have a pic of the wifi periodic drops http://i.imgur.com/JhRVP8F.png.
Server is connected to the router per LAN. I'm connecting to the server through
the router's WLAN. Bytes are transferred in one direction using nc. The graph
at the top is the CPU load on the router, another one below is the router's
wlan1(5GHz) iface throughput in MB/s. I thought that the router is guilty so I
measured cpu and wlan iface statistics on the router. But it turned out that
the problem lies on the client side and on the NetworkManager to be precise. As
these drops happens exactly with 120s periodicity I assume that it's the
background station scanning nm does even when connected to a station! To prove
that the nm is to blame I deactivated it and activated the wlan iface manually.
And here is how it looks like without nm - http://i.imgur.com/UWdUg4y.png

I consider this bug as major.

** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1407400

Title:
  WLAN interface throughput drops thanks to NetworkManager

Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Here I have a pic of the wifi periodic drops http://i.imgur.com/JhRVP8F.png.
  Server is connected to the router per LAN. I'm connecting to the server through
  the router's WLAN. Bytes are transferred in one direction using nc. The graph
  at the top is the CPU load on the router, another one below is the router's
  wlan1(5GHz) iface throughput in MB/s. I thought that the router is guilty so I
  measured cpu and wlan iface statistics on the router. But it turned out that
  the problem lies on the client side and on the NetworkManager to be precise. As
  these drops happens exactly with 120s periodicity I assume that it's the
  background station scanning nm does even when connected to a station! To prove
  that the nm is to blame I deactivated it and activated the wlan iface manually.
  And here is how it looks like without nm - http://i.imgur.com/UWdUg4y.png

  I consider this bug as major.

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