I am using Manjaro KDE with the 4.14.34-1-MANJARO kernel. I also have Windows 10 dual booted.
When I connect to my the internet via WiFi, I get speeds like 4kBps with ocassional timeouts in speedtest.net.
Heres the info of lshw:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0
version: 10
serial: a0:af:bd:a3:ff:02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.14.34-1-MANJARO firmware=29.610311.0 ip=192.168.1.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:131 memory:b4000000-b4001fff
As you can see I have the firmware v29. So the fw is updated.
When I switch back to windows I get my full speed (1 mBps) so windows is unaffected.
I tried running another distro (Ubuntu 17.10) from a LiveUSB and there too the speeds are tremendously slow.
Now if I connect my phone to the same wifi, and use USB thethering to connect my laptop to the internet, the speed is what I expect (1mBps) which I think confirms that it is probably the linux driver thats having trouble.
My laptop is the Acer Aspire A515-51G having the 8th gen Intel i5.
I have also tried switching to another router and the speed is still slow. (~4kBps)
It's really frustrating to have to usb thether my phone every time I use the internet so I can even browse smoothly.
please tell me how can I go about solving this.. because on windows I have NO problems whatsoever. It's only linux distros causing issues.
Edit: Even pinging to my router is unrealisticly slow
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=4.60 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.47 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=3.04 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=1.43 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=68.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=2.46 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=255 time=2.09 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=1.98 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=1.49 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=1.48 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=1.31 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=1.43 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=1.43 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=63.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=33 ttl=255 time=2.10 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=34 ttl=255 time=1.28 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=35 ttl=255 time=1.75 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=36 ttl=255 time=1.13 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
36 packets transmitted, 18 received, 50% packet loss, time 35276ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.137/9.023/68.543/20.155 ms
Just see the delay and packet loss
Message was edited by: Rushab Shah