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#1 2009-02-21 11:39:53

Bart6114
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Registered: 2009-02-21
Posts: 24

Limited bandwith with RT2560f wireless chipset

Hey,

I just installed ArchLinux (first time) this morning and am now trying to install all the packages I want. I had no problem setting up the wireless connection. I have a wireless card with a RT2560f chipset. lsmod lists the rt2x00 modules. Like I said, setup was no problem, I have a internet connection. The problem is that I have very limited bandwith (+/- 40 k/s) where normally I would have about 300 k/s. It´s not the mirrors, I also tried wgetting a big file on the internet wich returned the same result (where my other pc reached 300k/s on the same file).

Does anyone have any idea what I´m doing wrong?

Thx in advance!

(ps. sorry for my bad english)

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#2 2009-02-21 14:15:56

Bart6114
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Registered: 2009-02-21
Posts: 24

Re: Limited bandwith with RT2560f wireless chipset

Solved it!

Just for someone that has the same problem:

type iwconfig

check your bitrate (in my case it was set to 1mb/s)

to change this;

iwconfig --lan-- rate xM

where --lan-- is your network adapter e.g. wlan0
and x is your card's max speed e.g. 54

so I set it to

iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M


That worked for me!

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