Wireless drops every 25 seconds

Or so...this is very odd. I have noticed that my powerbook has very irregular internet access speeds. That is, if I am downloading somehting, it would alternate between downloading quickly and slowly every minute or so. This is true no matter what wireless network I am on (Starbucks, University, or my home).
I finally downloaded the Airport Client Monitor, and see that, while the graph showing the signal strength looks okay, the one showing transmit rate looks like a mountain range - sometimes it is very regular (drops to zero every 25 seconds), other times it is irregular (anywhere from a couple of seconds of normal speed to several minutes worth).
Any ideas? It is horribly frustrating.
Drew

Knute wrote:
Well, there are apps that can simulate key presses. Do you have one of them being triggered every 25 seconds?
What kind of cron jobs do you have running? How about the at daemon?
If you check your processes, do you have sleep running alot? Any weird scripts that you don't recognize?
When did this start happening?
How long has this been happening?
What changed?
hehehe.... Yeah, I give suggestions first then ask the troubleshooting questions!
Hmm.. No cron jobs. Doesn't look like it. Nope. This started happening yesterday. Only yesterday and today. Just this, nothing else.
Very frustrating.

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