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I messed around with this a bit more and still no luck. I'm revisiting it now because I just had to reinstall Ubuntu, and whereas my connection was slow but functional before it is now unusable. ...

Yep, you're right -- it's ralink, not realtek. The driver I'm trying to use isn't actually 2870; I copied and pasted that from the (out of date) readme. The actual driver file I have is...

I successfully blacklisted the old driver, but then the wireless didn't work at all -- it didn't load the new driver. The readme tells me to do the following:

# $/sbin/insmod rt2870sta.ko...

Okay, I tried rebooting, and found that Ubuntu did not load the new driver. One problem may be the location of the driver? I downloaded it to and built it in my home folder (just a folder called...

I *think* I've got the driver installed. At the very least, the makefile seemed to work and I didn't get any errors. However, I'm not sure how to switch the driver over to the new one. The readme...

Thanks for your post -- I wasn't doing sudo in my initial command (which is why it was asking for authentication), and once I did, the script ran. However, it didn't finish properly. I'm getting...

Still having this issue. Browsing the internet is like crawling over broken glass. Ping speeds to both the router and the printer that sites right next to this desktop are in the 100-300ms range...

Any ideas? I'm starting to wonder if it is a driver issue, because I got some pretty good results with speedtest.net the other morning. But now I'm back to d/l speeds <1Mbps and u/l speeds around...

Yeah, I put in my sudo password, I get an error message, it asks again, and then it quits.

The RT help desk guy suggested uninstalling my current wireless driver and then trying again, but I don't...

When I upgraded to 12.04 I suddenly started experience really slow download speeds with my wireless adapter. I'm using a PremierTek PT-H10DN, which uses the RTL8192SU chipset. Since it worked...