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d_d

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Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 12

Dell 640m - Wireless is abnormally slow. (6-12Kbps)

Using a Dell 640m, wireless connections are absurdly slow (6-12 Kbps down). The connection also keeps dropping every 5-10 minutes.

I installed XP to test, and everything runs fine, with stable connections and no speed problems. (in fact, using http://www.speedtest.net/, I get 3.75Mbps download).

I've been using arch for a while now, and my laptop was windows-free for the past 2 years. This problem has only occured within the past 2-3 months. I'm at my wit's end for solving it.

The wireless card is an intel 3945ABG. And the network is WEP (not my choice!).

I connect as follows:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid ${ESSID} key ${KEY}
dhcpcd wlan0

Has anyone experienced the same problem? What could be causing something like this?

EDIT: I seem to get the same problem when I use a ubuntu live cd. The wireless works, but the speed is ridiculously slow compared to using windows. What could be causing this problem?

PS: would I be better off posting this to Networking?

Last edited by d_d (2010-09-12 18:44:27)

d_d

Member

Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 12

Re: Dell 640m - Wireless is abnormally slow. (6-12Kbps)

In case anyone was wondering, this is solved by using ndiswrapper and the dell drivers.