Poor wireless on Toshiba Satellite C55t-A

[Jim Byrnes]

I upgraded this laptop from 12.04 to 14.04 hoping wireless would be 
better, but it's only marginally better if at all.  Sometimes it will 
not connect, if it connects many times the connection will drop and 
major web sites like CNN.com sometimes take minutes to load.  I don't 
experience this with a wired connection and my daughter has a laptop 
running 12.04 that connects with reliability and acceptable speed.

After reading through [1] & [2] below here are my results to their tests.

jfb at jim-Satellite:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8188EE
Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)


jfb at jim-Satellite:~$ sudo modprobe rtl8188ee
[sudo] password for jfb:
jfb at jim-Satellite:~$


jfb at jim-Satellite:~$ lsmod | grep rtl8188ee
rtl8188ee              89677  0
rtl_pci                26690  1 rtl8188ee
rtlwifi                63475  2 rtl_pci,rtl8188ee
mac80211              630653  3 rtl_pci,rtlwifi,rtl8188ee
jfb at jim-Satellite:~$

Note that [2] indicates that the 2d & 3d commands should produce 
equivalent output, but #2 produces nothing.

So does it look like the proper driver is installed and is the advice 
given in [1] & [2] still relevant for 14.04.

Thanks,  Jim


[1] 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/397983/ubuntu-12-04-realtek-rtl8188e-wireless-card-not-detected

[2]  http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=34212