Low Wireless Speed While Using Network Manager

Manish Kathuria mkathuria at tuxtechnologies.co.in
Tue Jun 17 15:29:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 19:22 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Broadcom BCM94311MCG Wireless Mini PCI Card on my laptop and
>> use the Network Manager on Fedora 9 to connect to the wireless
>> network. I just observed that the Wireless Speed or the Bit Rate does
>> not exceed 2 Mbps even when the laptop is close to the wireless
>> router. The bit rate used to be much higher and even touch 54 Mbps
>> when I had configured the interface directly without using the Network
>> Manager. Even though the current version of Network Manager
>> (NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3623.fc9.x86_64) allows me to edit
>> connection properties but it does not provide any setting for the Bit
>> Rate. Is there a way out to increase the wireless connection speed
>> while using Network Manager ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Manish Kathuria
>>
> The same thin haqppened to me last week. I traced it to my router. Look
> at the web interface of you wireless router is it is
> available.Restarting the router fixed the problem.
> --

Just did that but it didn't help. The bit rate is still stuck at 2 Mbps.

--
Manish




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