On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 04:51:33PM -0700, stan wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:25:32 +1100 > Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Having downloaded an updated version of the driver from Github > > that now compiles and runs with the 4.13 kernel I have looked at the > > wifi properties under Gnome and they tell me the connection speed is > > 450Mb/sec which is about the connection speed I get under Windows 10 > > with the 2.4 GHz interface. Under Windows 10 the 5 GHz interface > > connects at the documented speed of 1.3 Mb/sec. If I use the 2.4 GHz > > interface for the device gnome tells me the connection speed is 252 > > Mb/sec. > > > > Why are the connection speeds in Fedora so degraded? > > I don't have an answer to your question, just a suggestion. What speed > do you actually get when you test it? If the real life speed rather > than the reported speed is different, then it is time to investigate > why. If there is a real life discrepancy, then it could be that the > firmware in linux is reverse engineered versus the custom tuned > firmware for windows written by the manufacturer. > > Not sure if this will work for you, but there should be one you can use > somewhere on the web. > > https://fast.com/ Is one of them reporting in "MB", and the other in "Mb" ?? the former is megaBYTES, the latter is megaBITS. They differ by roughly a factor of ten. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
