For the last 2 months I have been constantly trying to use Linux for my daily work on my personal Laptop (HP Probook 4430s 2011 model) and I first installed Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Edition. The major issue I came across with it was that when I connected to Internet via Wifi Hotspot of my mobile phone, the speed was really slow (~10kbps) whereas no such issue ever came in Windows 10. I searched around the forums and found that Wifi 2.4 GHz frequency is not gettting good speeds in linux whereas 5 GHZ Wifi worked fine. Also there was a noticable lag in internet and sometimes the WiFi speeds would drop to zero all of a sudden. I tried everything that forums offered but it didn't work. I tried all of the major distros- Debian, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, PuppyLinux, ZorinOS but issue remained the same - 2.4GHZ wifi speed was very slow.
Workaround
I remembered I had once tried Linux mint in 2020 and internet had worked fine the. So I installed the old version Linux mint 19.2 Tina which is currently unsupported and to my surprise the Wifi works seamlessly and very fast, rather faster than Windows 10.
I am guessing this is the issue with newer kernel or my wifi driver is not supported in newer versions. But I really want this issue to be sorted out so that I can use newer versions of Linux Mint.
Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
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Re: Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
Hello danishgec welcome to the Forum.
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(You can use the command
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on the Terminal.)Re: Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
Yeah, you described thoroughly your case but you missed the vital part of posting your system specs.
Re: Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
Output of inxi -Fxxmprz
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Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 4430s v: A0001D02
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 167E v: KBC Version 22.26
serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68SRR Ver. F.63
date: 04/06/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 23.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 23.7/23.7 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.4 min: 10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter>
status: full
Memory:
RAM: total: 3.75 GiB used: 1.66 GiB (44.4%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
required.
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-2410M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 800 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 798 2: 800
3: 798 4: 798 bogomips: 18359
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:0116
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP HD Webcam [Fixed] type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.4:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:2805
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x0385 res: 1366x768 dpi: 112
diag: 355mm (14")
API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB
GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-18-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Ralink RT3592 Wireless 802.11abgn 2T/2R PCIe
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 24:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:3592
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 25:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp37s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 494.41 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS725050A9A364 size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade
size: 28.65 GiB serial: <filter>
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2612
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
2: deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
3: deb [trusted=yes] file:/run/live/medium bookworm main non-free-firmware
Info:
Processes: 219 Uptime: 3m Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5)
default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.26
Re: Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
Ouch, Ralink cards are ... special ... at the best of times (and that's before we consider HP anti-consumer shenanigans). Best bet would be a cheapo USB adapter to just avoid the Ralink/HP mess.
Re: Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions
That's really disappointing to hear. Thanks anyway.