Need help troubleshoot slow browsing........

[hogfan]

The problem seems to occur in in all browsers and is VERY annoying. I'm on LMDE 12 Update 4, on a Dell XPS 14Z. The Wifi chipset is Intel Centrino 6230 Wireless N capable. Here is my out put from iwconfig:

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wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"mynetwork"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:aa:bb:cc:cc:dd   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-59 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:19   Missed beacon:0

I have AT&T U-verse gateway that supports up to Wireless G. On my 9 year old laptop running Windows 7 I have an old Linksys Wireless G dongle plugged in and it maintains 100% signal strength to the wireless network. However, my LMDE laptop fluctuates wildly between 60% - 9x% Wifi signal strength. Sometimes browsing will go smoothly and then it will just "spin" waiting for response from the page. I can compare the same site on both laptops and the windows machine loads the page instantly and LMDE machine much slower. If I ping google from a terminal I do not get any packet loss and the response times are about 50 ms (same as on the windows machine). I'm not sure how to ts this at this point, but I need to get this fixed. Suggestions? Any help is appreciated.

-hogfan

[Sonsum]

Do you have the iwlwifi drivers installed?

http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi#Wheezy

[hogfan]

Yes. They are in the latest kernels from what I read. Removing and re-installing the intel drivers from synaptic seemed to fix the problem. Very strange.

-hogfan

[Sonsum]

I've always manually installed the drivers for my system. They're always "in the kernels" but never seem to work quite right until I install it myself. I'm glad you got it fixed

[hogfan]

Hmm. The WIFI signal still fluctuates between 50% - 95% after updating the to the latest drivers from the testing branch. Something still has to be going on. I find it absurd that when I'm in the same room as the Wireless router I do not have and maintain 100% signal strength. Any other ideas?

[Sonsum]

Not sure, what program are you using to measure the signal strength?

[hogfan]

I'm just using the "mouse-over" on the Wifi icon in the Mint Menu bar by the clock.

-hogfan