[ubuntu-uk] Slow Wireless

[Tony Arnold]

Sean,

Sean Miller wrote:

> I've just installed Hardy on one of my PCs and I notice that the speed
> of my wireless network is only 280kbps or thereabouts... when I'm
> running the same PC on Windows it's around 1mbps.
> 
> I notice that I'm getting 25-50% wireless bars most of the time, so
> think that might be the case - does weak signal mean slow speed?

> It's a PCI wireless card... calls itself an Ralink RT2500...

There are known problems with the driver for this card. See bug #134660
on launchpad.

If you ru iwconfig in a terminal you may find the speed of your
interface is set to 1M. You can set this manually to 54M (or whatever)
using:

	iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M

I still go my connection dropping out occasionally with this, so I
download the tar ball from the serialmonkey WEB site and compiled it up.
Have a look at
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page for more
information on down loading and building the driver.

HTH.

Regards,
Tony.
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