Slow/intermittent wifi

[Bill_1423]

Hello I'm new to Linux and have set up mint 19 on my system.

Everything's great apart from the wifi signal - I'm getting about 10% of the speed of windows 7 on the same system. Upload speed seems to be the same, however.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/8042080503.png

I've searched google and have disabled power management, but it hasn't helped.

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inxi -Fxz
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard U98Z077.00 Half-size Mini driver: rt2800pci 
  v: 2.3.0 port: 4040 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 

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iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eno1      no wireless extensions.

wlp1s0    IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"BTHub5-WZG5_EXT"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: C0:FF:D4:B5:C5:13   
          Bit Rate=52 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short  long limit:2   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=41/70  Signal level=-69 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:27756  Invalid misc:232   Missed beacon:0

Can anybody help me?

[Pjotr]

Please give the output of:

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inxi -Fxz

[Bill_1423]

Hello,

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inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: will-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 
  bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 
  Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC 
  v: 0691130000204510000620100 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 166F v: 09.4C serial: <filter> BIOS: Insyde 
  v: F.66 date: 01/24/2013 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 16.2 Wh condition: 16.2/16.2 Wh (100%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium B960 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 8780 
  Speed: 1676 MHz min/max: 800/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1995 2: 1996 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz, 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-45-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard U98Z077.00 Half-size Mini driver: rt2800pci 
  v: 2.3.0 port: 4040 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 13.96 GiB (6.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 82.00 GiB used: 13.96 GiB (17.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 18.26 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 79.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 192 Uptime: 1h 51m Memory: 3.80 GiB used: 1.89 GiB (49.8%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 
  inxi: 3.0.27 

[Pjotr]

Try this:
Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels
Install the latest kernel from the 4.18 series. Then reboot.

[Bill_1423]

Okay I have updated to kernel 4.18.0-15

It's still slow unfortunately

[Bill_1423]

Can anybody else help me? I'd really appreciate it