Slow internet with a mobile hotspot and fast on the other.

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-01 10:30:43

seth wrote:

That's for an "W311MI v6.0 AX300 Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Nano USB Adapter" which is *completely* not the dongle/chip you're currently using?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0& … &submit=Go

So, I should try installing one of these packages and see what works for me? Okay, let's try this, hope this works.

Thanks,
LL

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-01 10:42:19

Unfortunately, installing the aic8800d80-dkms did not improve any network performance.

And trying to install the aic8800-dkms gives these errors-

[ak@G31M-ES2L ~]$ yay -S  aic8800-dkms 
AUR Explicit (1): aic8800-dkms-1.0.5-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: aic8800-dkms
  1 aic8800-dkms                     (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
  1 aic8800-dkms                     (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
==> Making package: aic8800-dkms 1.0.5-1 (Sat 01 Mar 2025 04:09:53 PM IST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found aic8800-dkms.deb
  -> Found 0001-Make-CONFIG_RFTEST-n-valid.patch
  -> Found 0002-Fix-DKMS-config.patch
  -> Found 0003-Fix-kernel-logs.patch
==> WARNING: Skipping verification of source file PGP signatures.
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    aic8800-dkms.deb ... FAILED
    0001-Make-CONFIG_RFTEST-n-valid.patch ... Skipped
    0002-Fix-DKMS-config.patch ... Skipped
    0003-Fix-kernel-logs.patch ... Skipped
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
 -> error downloading sources: /home/ak/.cache/yay/aic8800-dkms 
         context: exit status 1 
         

:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: aic8800-dkms
==> Making package: aic8800-dkms 1.0.5-1 (Sat 01 Mar 2025 04:09:54 PM IST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found aic8800-dkms.deb
  -> Found 0001-Make-CONFIG_RFTEST-n-valid.patch
  -> Found 0002-Fix-DKMS-config.patch
  -> Found 0003-Fix-kernel-logs.patch
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    aic8800-dkms.deb ... FAILED
    0001-Make-CONFIG_RFTEST-n-valid.patch ... Skipped
    0002-Fix-DKMS-config.patch ... Skipped
    0003-Fix-kernel-logs.patch ... Skipped
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
 -> error making: aic8800-dkms-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
aic8800-dkms - exit status 1
[ak@G31M-ES2L ~]$

I already had a doubt about aic8800d80-dkms, as it said AX900 and I am using AX300.

Thanks,
LL

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-01 10:59:17

I managed to install the aic8800-dkms, it looks like the packages sha512 checksum and it's version in PKGBUILD were outdated, had to update them with nano.

But after installing this, there was not much improvement, only the upload speed got better, 2.12Mb/s but the download speed got even more stable. But the internet speed is still capped at 500KB/s.

I think there is a hard limit set by some configuration/setting for my mobile phone? Because other mobile phones are doing better than this much newer phone. The POCO M3 doesn't even supply a stable 1.2 MB/s in torrent, but this give 18MB/s in torrents!

Here is the logs-
http://0x0.st/8mle.txt

Thanks,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-03-01 11:00:13)

seth · 2025-03-01 14:29:16

Mar 01 16:24:35 G31M-ES2L wpa_supplicant[495]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-29 noise=9999 txrate=21700

Signal is much better, but there's no sign of any aic chip.

Maybe let's start with what hardware you're actually using

lsusb -tv
lspci -knn

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-01 15:25:01

seth wrote:

Maybe let's start with what hardware you're actually using
lsusb -tv
lspci -knn

Here is lsusb -tv-

[ak@G31M-ES2L ~]$ lsusb -tv
/:  Bus 001.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
    ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
/:  Bus 002.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/8p, 480M
    ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    |__ Port 005: Dev 002, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 480M
        ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
    |__ Port 006: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=rt2800usb, 480M
        ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
/:  Bus 003.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
    ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
/:  Bus 004.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
    ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
/:  Bus 005.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
    ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
    |__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M
        ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. Mouse
    |__ Port 002: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
        ID 046d:c33c Logitech, Inc. 
    |__ Port 002: Dev 003, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
        ID 046d:c33c Logitech, Inc.

Here is lspci -knn
[ak@G31M-ES2L ~]$ lspci -knn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:5000]
        Kernel modules: intel_agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:5000]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887) [1458:a002]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5001]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:5001]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5004]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5004]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5004]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5004]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD [1458:5006]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:5000]
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:5001]
        Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
        Kernel modules: leds_ss4200, intel_rng, lpc_ich
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:b002]
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
        Kernel modules: ata_piix, pata_acpi, ata_generic
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-8I945PG-RH/GA-D525TUD Mainboard [1458:5001]
        Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 740] [10de:0fc8] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:109a]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:0e1b] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:109a]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1063] (rev c0)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard [1458:e000]
        Kernel driver in use: atl1c
        Kernel modules: atl1c

Output of inxi -Fxxxz-

[ak@G31M-ES2L ~]$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.13.5-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.2 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: G31M-ES2L serial: <superuser required>
    uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: Award v: FI date: 08/09/2010
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2833 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 2833 2: 2833 3: 2833 4: 2833
    bogomips: 22667
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 740] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
    arch: Kepler-2 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fc8
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    display-ID: :0 note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: LG (GoldStar) FHD serial: <filter>
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 size: 480x260mm (18.9x10.24") diag: 546mm (21.5")
    modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
  Info: Tools: de: kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xprop
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Gigabyte GA-D525TUD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:27d8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.5-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L driver: atl1c v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: bf00 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1063 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter driver: rt2800usb type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-6:3 chip-ID: 148f:5370
    class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 16.38 GiB (1.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU800 size: 476.94 GiB
    speed: <unknown> tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 8B scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: <unknown> tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: A7C0
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 173.1 GiB used: 13.19 GiB (7.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-2: /home size: 14.66 GiB used: 3.18 GiB (21.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 1.91 GiB used: 678.5 MiB (34.7%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35%
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.82 GiB used: 3.12 GiB (81.6%)
  Processes: 192 Power: uptime: 1h 10m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 725 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash
    v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37

Thanks for the suggestion of changing the usb adapter's location, now I can use wi-fi from the other room, in case my family is using it.

Thanks,
LL

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-01 15:28:37

I also tried using usb tethering to see if the output of my mobile phone was low, but it seems like that usb tethering gave okay results with 9Mb/s of download and average 1Mb/s of upload speed.

Edit- Okay, this is getting ridiculous, I just got a 4Mb/s download with 18Mb/s upload on wi-fi??????

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-03-01 15:40:53)

seth · 2025-03-01 16:50:45

You're not measuring this with some bittorrent client, are you?

Get ABBS - there's a basic speedtest against linode servers in that.

LinuxLover471 · 2025-03-02 06:44:04

I don't know what happened, but I just did a speedtest from google right now and the speed is 45Mb/s download and 2Mb/s upload.

I think this was fixed by the aic8800-dkms packages and by updating to the latest version of arch. Changing the router location to the front did help.

Here are the logs if they matter-
http://0x0.st/8a5A.txt
Thanks,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-03-02 06:45:29)

seth · 2025-03-02 08:23:08

There's no aic chip in that journal, "lsmod | grep 88", but you've a very good signal now

Mar 02 12:08:42 G31M-ES2L wpa_supplicant[498]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-19 noise=9999 txrate=21700

Thanks for the suggestion of changing the usb adapter's location

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-03 03:45:20

I am extremely sorry, for bringing this thread up after a long time. I will be more careful next time.

When I tried installing the aic8800-dkms driver again (I probably didn't install it the first time either because there was no output in the logs) , I saw that it didn't even install properly, the dkms module building process exited with exit code 10.

The wifi connection seems to be moody, whenever it wants to give better speeds it goes up to 5MB/s and when it doesn't want to, it stays capped at 512KB/s. But the mobile phone still gives a very good internet speed, 100Mb/s atleast all the time.

Edit-
I had also tried compiling the ubuntu driver from source using this article-

https://selenologist.github.io/posts/In … -on-Linux/

I got hit with a few errors, and honestly, I don't even want to try that again, it gives me trauma.

Sorry,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-04-03 04:28:32)

seth · 2025-04-03 07:04:55

The wifi connection seems to be moody, whenever it wants to give better speeds it goes up to 5MB/s and when it doesn't want to, it stays capped at 512KB/s.

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Please post your complete system journal for a boot covering such fluctuation

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also post

lspci -nn; lsusb

seth wrote:

There's no aic chip [in that journal]

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-04 15:56:25

Here is a log when I am getting 512KB/s,
http://0x0.st/82FE.txt

Output of lspci -n lsusb

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 10)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 740] [10de:0fc8] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:0e1b] (rev a1)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c33c Logitech, Inc. G512 RGB MECHANICAL GAMING KEYBOARD
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. Mouse

I will give the higher speed logs when It occurs,
Thanks,
LL

seth · 2025-04-04 20:53:07

There's absolutely no AIC chip…

Apr 04 21:02:39 G31M-ES2L NetworkManager[472]: <info>  [1743780759.1967] device (wlp0s29f7u8): Activation: successful, device activated.
Apr 04 21:02:39 G31M-ES2L wpa_supplicant[478]: wlp0s29f7u8: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-39 noise=9999 txrate=26000
…
Apr 04 21:02:46 G31M-ES2L NetworkManager[472]: <info>  [1743780766.7766] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
…
Apr 04 21:02:52 G31M-ES2L NetworkManager[472]: <info>  [1743780772.3127] policy: set 'Galaxy M53 5G 9305' (wlp0s29f7u8) as default for IPv6 routing and DNS
…
Apr 04 21:21:49 G31M-ES2L sudo[4735]:       ak : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/ak ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -Syu
Apr 04 21:21:49 G31M-ES2L sudo[4735]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by ak(uid=1000)
Apr 04 21:22:12 G31M-ES2L rtkit-daemon[616]: Supervising 9 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Apr 04 21:22:12 G31M-ES2L rtkit-daemon[616]: Supervising 9 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Apr 04 21:23:43 G31M-ES2L rtkit-daemon[616]: Supervising 9 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Apr 04 21:23:43 G31M-ES2L rtkit-daemon[616]: Supervising 9 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
Apr 04 21:24:09 G31M-ES2L sudo[4735]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Apr 04 21:24:10 G31M-ES2L kded6[619]: org.kde.colorcorrectlocationupdater: Geolocator stopped
Apr 04 21:24:30 G31M-ES2L sudo[4915]:       ak : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/ak ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -b

Is your (only) metric for "slow" the pacman mirror speed?

But the mobile phone still gives a very good internet speed, 100Mb/s atleast all the time.

The one you're connected to there?
Does it itself use a 2.4GHz connection elsewhere or 4G/5G mobile broadband (LTE)?

There seems no BT, you've a great signal to the phone and there's no indication for any driver issues, but if you're using the same band to the phone as to phone to somewhere else, there's oc, great potential for interference on both connections.

Did I already bring up https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering ?

-thc · 2025-04-05 07:26:14

seth wrote:

Did I already bring up https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering ?

Since the tethering to a mobile phone seems to be the primary internet connection and the PC "somehow" has to rely on an USB WiFi adapter I would've switched to USB tethering long ago.

seth · 2025-04-05 08:18:15

I actually did, first comment

The phone might serve as HP for multiple devices though or it's just a convenience thing.

Either way, to recap:
The signal use to be poor, switching the usb port took care of that but the throughput seems to remain poor.
I'm actually not seeing the AX300 adapter in the journal (might have fudged two journals) and it's not showing up in any lsusb/lspci, only the ralink NIC.
The entire AIC stuff is an additional misunderstanding based on that, there's not AIC chip for sure and installing that driver won't do anything. Ever.

I also tried using usb tethering to see if the output of my mobile phone was low, but it seems like that usb tethering gave okay results with 9Mb/s of download and average 1Mb/s of upload speed.
Edit- Okay, this is getting ridiculous, I just got a 4Mb/s download with 18Mb/s upload on wi-fi??????
I don't know what happened, but I just did a speedtest from google right now and the speed is 45Mb/s download and 2Mb/s upload.
moody, whenever it wants to give better speeds it goes up to 5MB/s and when it doesn't want to, it stays capped at 512KB/s. But the mobile phone still gives a very good internet speed, 100Mb/s

I start to wonder whether this is just sideload on the phone and the wildly swinging throughput is quota's because it's pulling updates from the playstore or whatnot.

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-05 16:54:38

Is your (only) metric for "slow" the pacman mirror speed?

Mostly, on the pc. ( I did infact use google's speedtest in this post.) On the mobile phone? The speedtest that you get on google's search engine by MLabs ( I think that is what it is called.)

the mobile phone still gives a very good internet speed, 100Mb/s atleast all the time.
The one you're connected to there?

Yes, I am in fact talking about the device that I am connected to.

Does it itself use a 2.4GHz connection elsewhere or 4G/5G mobile broadband (LTE)?

My mobile phone is using 5G network (mobile data, it is pretty stable). Cherry on top, the mobile phone is connected with the 2.4Ghz band. My phone does support 5Ghz but my usb adapter does not.

There seems no BT, you've a great signal to the phone and there's no indication for any driver issues, but if you're using the same band to the phone as to phone to somewhere else, there's oc, great potential for interference on both connections.

Yeah, I don't have any bluetooth. Also the phone is mostly idle, it doesn't do anything while transmitting data. It is usually only connected to the arch system and nothing else.

I can in fact use USB tethering, but it lacks convenience and I don't like hanging cables on top of my monitor.

I start to wonder whether this is just sideload on the phone and the wildly swinging throughput is quota's because it's pulling updates from the playstore or whatnot.

Already mentioned, the mobile phone is usually idle when I use hotspot.

Thanks,
LL

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seth · 2025-04-05 21:18:08

Is your (only) metric for "slow" the pacman mirror speed?
Mostly, on the pc.

That's a *horrible* metric.
You might simply be using a slow/busy mirror.

Get ABBS - there's a simple wget+linode based speedtest.

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-06 03:22:20

seth wrote:

Is your (only) metric for "slow" the pacman mirror speed?
Mostly, on the pc.
That's a *horrible* metric.
You might simply be using a slow/busy mirror.
Get ABBS - there's a simple wget+linode based speedtest.

I am using an optimized pacman mirrorlist which I update when I see slow speeds. I just did a speedtest and got 3Mb/s download and 6Mb/s upload.
Also I will try ABBS.
Edit-
I confirmed the speed with ABBS, and I have to admit the script is pure gold.
Thanks,
LL

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seth · 2025-04-06 06:36:30

got 3Mb/s download and 6Mb/s upload

Either the phones wifi isn't yelling loud enough (low transmit power, apparently there's no problem w/ you yelling packages into the ether - and you also don't have this w/ the other phone) or quotas you in some capacity (because it requires the bandwidth for itself?)

Have you tried that phone as hotspot AP for some other host (in doubt the other phone - albeit ideally on 2.4GHz)?

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-06 12:56:15

seth wrote:

Have you tried that phone as hotspot AP for some other host (in doubt the other phone - albeit ideally on 2.4GHz)?

Yes, I have tried this on another phone, my J5( 2015) , and it has better speeds, about 10Mb/s. It is even higher on other mobile phones.

seth · 2025-04-06 19:46:16

To be clear: not other phones as AP for your computer, but other phones as hosts connecting to the troublesome phone?
And the issue is intermittent? ("moody")

Do you have another wifi dongle?

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-07 08:12:03

Here is a journal where I am getting 40Mb/s download and 5Mb/s upload speed. Both in pacman and google speedtest.

I don't have another wifi dongle. The issue is in fact intermittent.
Also the M53 (the problematic host) is directly connected to the system. I sometimes use other hotspots for internet and they perform better than this, but when it has the "mood" it gives 6MB/s which is huge in my opinion.

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seth · 2025-04-08 20:01:36

Nothing spectacular in that journal, the signal is great but 40Mb/s (5MB/s) is what you'd expect anyway?

LinuxLover471 · 2025-04-09 13:20:16

seth wrote:

Nothing spectacular in that journal, the signal is great but 40Mb/s (5MB/s) is what you'd expect anyway?

Yeah, that is the speed I would expect as that is the absolute limit for this adapter, if it's not, then I don't even need that much speed. Even a stable 1MB/s is good enough for me.

seth · 2025-04-09 14:39:12

So we'll need a journal when it's bad.

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