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Question #45104 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/45104

Yorak proposed the following answer:
After annoying week of almost working wifi on my Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 eee
4G 701, I found a fix for this problem! It seems that the madwifi
drivers that come with array.org's kernel (and thus with Ubuntu.eee)
are not entirely compatible with the Atheros AR242x. The older version
works fine if compiled for current kernels. The answer was found from
the help.ubuntu.com wiki ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes
)

Tsuki wrote following to the wiki:

"This version of madwifi (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604) only
gives intermittent WiFi for me - I get frequent brown-outs (no data
though connection stays up) and connection failures. The old madwifi
(madwifi-ng-r3366+ar5007) linked from here:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly works
better for me but doesn't appear to be hosted on snapshots.madwifi.org
anymore! I don't have the ability to host the file myself, is anyone
already doing it? --Tsuki"

So, to fix your slow/falky wifi on your eee 701, download  http://file-
hosting.site-hosts.net/eeepc/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz , compile,
install and reboot. POOF, wifi works lightning fast!

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