Low Wireless Speed While Using Network Manager

Manish Kathuria mkathuria at tuxtechnologies.co.in
Tue Jun 17 16:24:02 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 20:59 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
>> 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.
>
> man iwconfig
>
> Try something like iwconfig wlan0 rate auto or iwconfig wlan0 rate 54G
> or something along those lines.  The part your looking up the info for
> is near the top, maybe one or two pages down.
>
> You may be able to set it via networkmanager gui but not sure
>
> --
> Mike Chambers

Using iwconfig does not help as long as I am using Network Manager.
Without using Network Manager and configuring the wireless interface
through the network scripts I am able to achieve much higher bit
rates.

--
Manish




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