I am fairly new to Ubuntu. I have installed 16.04LTS on a new Dell Inspiron 5565. Everything seemed to be working fine until I noticed I had a slow Internet connection. When I look at my "Connection Information" it is showing the Speed at 6Mb/s. On my windows partition, I get 400+ Mb/s. I have tried the following:
Nothing has seemed to work thus far.
Here is what I am working with:
cat proc/version
Linux version 4.13.0-26-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-031) (gcc version
5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5)) #29~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 9 22:00:44 UTC 2018
lspci -vvnn |grep -A 9 Network
Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev
31) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:1810] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+
SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fastTAbort- SERR- Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci Kernel modules:
ath10k_pci
Best Answer
My connection information also shows 6 Mbps:
However speedtest.net reports almost 60 Mbps throughput:
Running the same test on an Ethernet adapter rated at 1000 Mbps results in same 60 Mbps Internet download speed. So speed is limited by ISP not by WiFi. Relevant
lspci -vv
:I can't explain why the
iwconfig
speed is so low when the real speed is so high. The same results are obtained from other Linux CLI sources: