wireless speed in network manager

Harold Hartley harold_hartley at verizon.net
Sat May 3 22:20:54 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:
> Harold Hartley wrote:
>   
>> I'm running ubuntu 8.04 on a dell latitude d800 inside of windows.
>>     
>
> Ubuntu 8.04 inside of Windows? Do you mean in a virtual machine?
>
>   
>> I'm wondering when I click on the connection information within the
>> network manager it shows a speed of 1 Mbps all the time.
>> Has anyone else noticed this and is there a fix for this problem to
>> show or allow the speed to work faster...
>>     
>
> If it is really inside a VM, you probably don't have direct access to the 
> bare hardware but you are looking at a virtual network device. Then the 
> speed displayed by NM is probably not relevant. The real speed is 
> probably higher, or did you measure the throughput and it really was 
> 1Mbps?
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
No, I mean it installs in windows like an application using wubi the 
windows installer..

Harold





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