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

Tony Travis a.travis at abdn.ac.uk
Sat Mar 28 12:08:16 GMT 2009


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?

Hello, Gordon.

I had a similar problem with the Broadcom WiFi chipset on my Asus A6K 
notebook, so I installed "ndiswrapper-utils" and "ndisgtk", which is a 
GUI for setting up NDIS drivers. I've now got a 54Mb/s WiFi connection!

Bye,

	Tony.
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