Wirless rt2500pci very slow

[XiMeNSiOnS]

Hi, I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 and ran my wireless and noticed its extremely slow. On windows I get 90% signal strength, on Ubuntu I get 48% signal strength. That automatically means something is wrong. I have the rt2500pci drivers on because I did "lsmod" and saw them there, but is there something else I need to do to set them up properly. I need this problem fixed right away for school and business purposes.

[lH)4~mK0e]

Please do

 iwconfig

and post the results.

[XiMeNSiOnS]

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"Wireless"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:00:B2:13   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=24 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=48/100  Signal level:-68 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[thewolffman]

My problem with this driver in 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27-7) is that the
driver get fixed to 1 Mb instead of 54 Mbit.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"AirWolff"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:C6:78:11:13
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality=52/100 Signal level:-48 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


after i do 'iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M' i get this:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"AirWolff"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:C6:78:11:13
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality=71/100 Signal level:-49 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[Dukius]

Thanks wolffman!!! Your solution worked great with my problem!!

For those having the same problems (most of you for what I've seen here) If doing an iwconfig your Bit Rate is = 1Mb/s just try to do as wolffman said:

#sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M

I've a Conceptronic 54g Wireless PCI and my bit rate was locked to 1Mb/s and my downloads never been further than 30kb/s, just after switching the bit rate to 54M i got the full connection bandwith!!

The only problem now is that after rebooting it goes back to 1Mb/s....

My problem with this driver in 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27-7) is that the
driver get fixed to 1 Mb instead of 54 Mbit.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"AirWolff"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:C6:78:11:13
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality=52/100 Signal level:-48 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


after i do 'iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M' i get this:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"AirWolff"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:C6:78:11:13
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality=71/100 Signal level:-49 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[bgenc]

I have a serious problem with this chipset.
In older versions of Ubuntu, I had this 1mbit rate problem.
Now the default installation in 9.10 assumes a 54mbit connection.
However, now my tx-power is reduced to 20dbi and I cannot increase
it to 27dbi (that is the value in the good old days)

My connection is somehow limited to .5 mbits now. I cannot download
more than 60kb/s. I disabled ipv6 here and there with no help at all.

Please help me because this is really driving me crazy.

[ComicSubversion]

I have the same problem (on 8.10 currently, but it was the same on 8.4), so any help would be greatly appreciated.

And here's my info:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Rings"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:03:2F:48:55B
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality=40/100 Signal level:-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[XiMeNSiOnS]

Guess no one wants to help us.

[eldragon]

Guess no one wants to help us.

open a terminal and do

$ lsmod |grep rt

post output here. i can help you if you got the same chipset.

[bgenc]

$ lsmod |grep rt

agpgart 42184 1 nvidia
rt2500pci 24064 0
rt2x00pci 15104 1 rt2500pci
rt2x00lib 36224 2 rt2500pci,rt2x00pci
rfkill 17176 2 rt2x00lib
led_class 12164 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 216820 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 32392 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 10240 1 rt2500pci
parport_pc 39204 1
parport 42604 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc