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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Wireless speed - Dell Dell Wireless 1395 (Broadcom 4312 chipset)

I have a dell m1330 XPS laptop running Arch 64 using the proprietary broadcom drivers, as referenced in this wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312

My situation is this; my broadband is 10Mbps which is what I see if I do a third party speed test using a wired connection.

However, if I do the same speed test using wireless, I can only get 2 Mbps.   I'm using WPA2 encryption and linksys WRT54G wireless router (with
dd-wrt firmware). 

This seems really slow and I'm wondering if it's primarily a driver issue??

Other: I do show a full, 100% signal strength on my laptop.  I live in an apartment complex with many other Wireless Access points around.

Thanks.

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