Ah this is interesting!
Post AKU 3.3 rom update it sure *felt* like Wifi was going faster.
And it is! To test, I fetched a 300mb file over my lan (Samba, linux server) and enabled traffic monitoring (ntop) on the interface...
Real time thruput being tracked (after 180MB sent...):
Code:
Network Load
Actual 2.6 Mbps 448.2 Pkts/sec
Last Minute 2.5 Mbps 436.8 Pkts/sec
Last 5 Minutes 2.6 Mbps 458.5 Pkts/sec
Peak 2.7 Mbps 479.2 Pkts/sec
Average 2.6 Mbps 455.7 Pkts/sec
Running XCPUScalar 2007 on the 6700, without enabling any speed boost, CPU load shows... 82% Boosting CPU to 520mhz, cpu load is 82% - so it's not CPU bound.
However, they must have made some internal changes to the tcp/wifi code, or something else, because it now transfers almost 1mbit/sec faster... 2.5mbit is still a little shy of the 5.5mbit you should be able to get out of 802.11b, but it's not horrible.