[ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow

[Matthew Daubney]

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +0000, Gordon wrote:
> Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40.
> Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but 
> is so slow as to be unusable.
> Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this?

Hiya,

I've got a USB wireless dongle that uses this chipset and have had
similar problems. There is a very old bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275302 and I've
emailed the people who are listed as the module developers, but had no
response. It looks like the device just randomly drops a LOT of packets.
I've had a quick look at trying to fix it myself, but I don't really
understand how these things work!

Not very helpful I know, some people have had some success with
ndiswrapper, a horrible hack I know, but if it works?

-Matt Daubney