I am trying to find out how to increase my wifi download speed. I have two OS’s on my computer. The other one has my download speen at between 38 and 50 mB persecond. I connot get Netrunner above 14. Any ideas of why this is happening and how I can fix it?
Thank you,
Gary
Are you sure these are the correct values and both systems don’t use other methods to show download speed (like Mbit/s and MB/s or MiB/s)
Also which wifi chip is this?
I am using the network speed test provided by my ISP Time Warner Cable. I have a Broadcom Limited
BCM4313 802.11 bgn Wireless Network Adapter. Thank you for your reply.
Broadcom is sadly a very problematic chipset especially that one.
Is this package installed ? broadcom-sta-dkms
Maybe installing it and blacklisting the other module (you can use lsmod command in the terminal to see a list of modules/drivers loaded, brcmsmac or b43 might need blacklisting)
Here are some hints that you can try out. Even though it states ubuntu they are still valid:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/465558/broadcom-bcm4313-wifi-slow-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04
http://askubuntu.com/questions/450049/extremely-slow-connection-with-a-broadcom-bcm4313-wireless-card
Thank you. I will look at your suggestions and try them out.