Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 453278
Slow wireless network speeds
Last modified: 2009-07-14 11:51:51 EDT
Description of problem My 802.11g network only achieves speeds of around 80-250kb/s under fedora, instead of something more reasonable. This is quite frustrating. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.25.6-55.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to wlan 2. scp file 3. watch molasses-like transfer speeds Actual results: 175MB file takes upwards of half an hour to transfer Expected results: 175MB file takes a couple of minutes at most Additional info: this seems to affect both my Thinkpad z61 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) and my t41 (atheros AR5212). GigE speeds are roughly what you'd expect.
So, this seems to be dependent on network quality, in that if I sit right next to my AP, it works happily, but if I move away then it starts to suffer badly. NetworkManager reports a much lower connection quality, which never improves. Maybe there's some low water mark effect going on? (an eeepc and a linksys wrt54g running as a wireless bridge do not show significantly impaired connectivity in these locations)
Is it any better in 2.6.26.3-29?
Better, but not fixed. Now I get around 1.2MB/s compared to 2.5MB/s with the wrt54g bridge. It was around 300KB/s before.
And it's back to rubbish again in 2.6.26.5-45 :'(
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