Bug 589134

Summary: Intel 5100 never connects at greater than 65Mb/sec
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan>
Component: w3c-libwwwAssignee: Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jerry LeVan 2010-05-05 13:30:21 UTC
Description of problem:

The network applet never shows a speed greater than 65Mb/sec. I have
an i7 based laptop with the intel 5100 agn wireless chip.

The laptop is about 6 inches away from the Apple Wireless Extreme
base station.

File transfers peak at about 3MB/s

I am fairly sure that several months ago I was getting a
much higher throughput.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use wireless networking
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Network applet shows 65Mb/sec (or less)

Expected results:
I would hope to get at least 130Mb/sec

Additional info:
From lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

The base station has been set up with a 5ghz and 2.4ghz access points.

I have a ralink 2870 wireless usb stick that I use on an old laptop
that connects at 130Mb/sec (and it is upstairs on the other side
of the house).

My Macbook Pro runs between 270 and 300 Mb/sec.

[jerry@bigbox net]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"jerrysnet_5GHz"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.745 GHz  Access Point: 00:24:36:A7:27:A4   
          Bit Rate=65 Mb/s   Tx-Power=9 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-27 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

vboxnet0  no wireless extensions.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 15:34:28 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:03:20 UTC
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