This did effectively max out the wifi connection and give a good report of the actual speed. To get a better measure, I connected to my backup server’s FTP server (FileZilla) from Waterfox and downloaded some large files. On most Linux systems, the automounting of a network share is handled by GVFS (Gnome Virtual File System, which was using that name for about a decade before MS came along and clumsily named something else the very same thing), and GVFS is slooooooow in copying from network shares on the client end.

I did find some answers, though.įirst of all, don’t use file copying from a Samba or Windows networking share as a measure of the wifi speed. Searching the internet for “slow wifi” and other related things turned up a lot of stuff, and sorting through the outdated or irrelevant information can be frustrating.

The 72 cards are very similar, and I am using the same version of Linux on both, so what did I change that fixed it on the older laptop? Meanwhile, I have a faint memory of the same slow speed being a problem when I first installed Linux on the Core 2 Duo laptop, but when I tested it now, it was fast– actually besting its performance in Windows by a little bit. In Windows, the new 7265 card I put in the Dell ran at the full expected speed right from the get-go, but in Linux, it was actually slower than the supposedly “half as fast” card it had replaced. Those were not the original wifi cards in either of them, but upgrading wireless cards is easy and cheap (tons of cards on eBay for under $10), so why not? All of them use Intel wifi adapters… my Core 2 Duo laptop uses an Intel 7260 AGN (dual band without Bluetooth) MiniPCIE card, while my Dell laptop with Celeron N3060 uses an Intel 7265 AGN+AC (dual band with Bluetooth) M.2 card. I have several laptops with wireless networking (wifi) capability, and out of the box, they’ve always worked, but not as quickly as in Windows. While Linux Mint and the other members of the Ubuntu Linux family have done a great job of configuring everything with the appropriate driver right out of the box (meaning as soon as Linux was done installing, before I started changing the default settings) every time I’ve installed Linux in recent years, there was one issue that was really annoying, and I thought I’d share how I fixed it with the good readers of. The directions are the same for Intel or other cards. This may also work for non-Intel cards, so feel free to try it if your wifi is slow.

Dual band ac 7265 wifi card linux