HKR, Ndi\params\bkScanEnable, default, "1" Scan valid interval change from 60 to 120 -Background Scan: off -Roaming Policy:

very low -and Scan Valid Interval: 120 (max)

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Because I use my laptop as a DAW (digital audio workstation), I need as low late ncy as possible, and glitches are not acceptable. So, what I did was experimenting with the settings of the latest official driver I found: 9.2.0.480 for XP. I noticed spikes every 30 seconds in DPC latency checker when my Atheros card wa s active. When I disabled the card, the spikes were gone, so I knew the spikes w ere due to the Atheros Wifi Adapter. Then I changed the parameter: Scan Valid In terval: 120 (it was 30 I believe) and I noticed the spikes were every 120 secs o r so. So I guess the spikes of latency have something to do with this Scan Interval pa rameter. I also noticed that in the modded drivers that don't work for the Ather os AR5B97 on WinXP, there is an extra parameter called: Background Scan that you can put to Off. So I thought, if I can have this parameter available in the lat est driver, I could try to set this value to Off. So I replaced the inf file and modded it with the code I found in the last know XP modded driver that does not work for this card and added an entry for my AR5B97 card. I named my driver 9.2 .0.504 and I replaced the current driver and I saw the value appear in the setti ngs. I changed the value for Background Scan to Off and voila the spikes of late ncy are completely gone.