[Solved] Fast ethernet, but slow wireless

sylmobile · #1 (**permalink**) 08-Jan-2009, 05:37

The details are at the following posting thread. Basically, I used YaST to set up the wireless interface and used Network Manager to run the wireless link. But the Bit Rate of the wireless interface was only 1Mb/s whereas I was getting 4Mb/s on the ethernet link to the ADSL router. Using iwconfig to report and change the bit rate was the answer.

Fast Ethernet, but slow wireless - openSUSE Forums

Magic31 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-Jan-2009, 06:01

Now that's perfect timing! I just finshed installing openSUSE 11.1 on my main desktop that has a Realtek RaLink RT2500 802.11g installed.
When doing some updates I noticed the crawl..

I open up the forums to see if there is any report of this... and voila, your post is sitting on top

In my case ' iwlist scanning ' reported a max bit rate of 48M.
Setting it with ' iwconfig wlan0 rate 48M ' made it jump back up to 48M.

Although 54M is not listed as supported rate, I can set it and it will be applied within 30 seconds.
The auto function (iwconfig wlan rate auto) seems broken when using the card. I don't have the issue on my other two wireless systems?

As you are also using a Realteck I'm guessing it's a driver issue.

Cheers,
Wj

p.s. Seems we will have to apply the rate setting after each reboot until a fix is known...

TarQuin06 · #3 (**permalink**) 19-Sep-2009, 17:24

Wow - Sometimes the search is really helpful!!!

Thanks this solved my headache!!! 14M internet is definitely better than 1M...^^

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