Download Speeds 700kb/sec out of 15MB/sec

[slixz85]

(EDIT: THREAD IS KINDA SOLVED IN WIERD WAY)
it does appear as tech has told me that I have wrong drivers anyway however half of my speed came back from SIMPLY disabling/removing the firefox addon of anonymox. apparently it limits your speed if you dont buy the full version somehow. I found this out from researchin after I read that someone else had their internet speed reduced as well while using it. My speed was a drastic change though from 7-10MB/sec down to 700kb so if you use this maybe test your speed at www.testmy.net to find out. something as simple as though got my speed back to 7MB/sec so with this speed I am content in not completely doing the work below that Tech was nice enough to take the time to point out. Plus just worry I could screw it up worse. Thanks again Tech. LMAO part of this over a firefox addon who would of thought!




Hi. How's it goin Pro's?
I am using Lubuntu 12.10 this WAS the first operating system I have come by that finally was downloading at speeds nearly what I am paying for. My internet plan is a staggering 15MB/sec with Suddenlink. I have been using many os's and all of them downloading at what I am now about 700kb/sec now that horrible of course for an internet plan of 15MB/sec.
What Lubuntu 12.10 was downloading at was 10-12MB/sec until I applied all of the NORMAL updates it asked for from sudo apt-get dist-upgrade this is all I did. I believe this is where the problem is coming from but not exactly sure since I tried so many os's that never even hit better than 1.5MB/sec and Lubuntu the first at 10MB/sec. Now I know that I could just reinstall quite possibly but I don't want to do this cause I have already set up all of my programs that I need and want on my system and would hate to download a full day worth of stuff again (besides once I update the system again then I would be back to square 1). Plus it would be nice to know what the actual fix is that I need so in the future if I want to use another system I can and then I could know what I need to get or do. I like distro hopping sometimes every 6 months or so. So far about the only thing I have done is changed the MTU from auto to 1492 (same speed of 700kb/sec) then I changed it too 1500 (same speed of 700kb/sec as well). I also called my cable company and they said from their side it is running faster than it should (go figure and I can't use that speed).

Below is all of the wifi card info and alot more info than needed since this is wifi prob but just in case something wierd is conflicting I included more info. I just ran a benchmark and used a couple codes I knew.
If I am missing something please let me know but I have tried to explain this in full detail for you guys. Thanks to any help I get much appreciated.


lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 050d:945a Belkin Components F7D1101 v1 Basic Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188SU]


iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"suddenlink.net-4A12" Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:CF:F0:4A:10
Bit Rate:72 Mb/s (sometimes this is 150 but rare and still have 700kb/sec) Sensitivity:0/0
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=82/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.



ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:77873 (77.8 KB) TX bytes:77873 (77.8 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:86:3b:77:98:86
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a86:3bff:fe77:9886/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38632 errors:0 dropped:5488 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24295 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:46324727 (46.3 MB) TX bytes:2790151 (2.7 MB)


sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for lubuntu:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:4
logical name: wlan0
serial: 08:86:3b:77:98:86
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=192.168.0.10 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn


Network: (from benchmark program)

Interfaces
Network Interfaces
wlan0 40.86MiB 2.36MiB 192.168.0.10
lo 0.06MiB 0.06MiB 127.0.0.1
IP Connections
Connections
127.0.0.1:631 LISTEN 0.0.0.0:* tcp
127.0.1.1:53 0.0.0.0:* udp
192.168.0.10:33418 ESTABLISHED 93.152.160.101:8001 tcp
192.168.0.10:34962 ESTABLISHED 173.193.202.116:88 tcp
192.168.0.10:34968 ESTABLISHED 173.193.202.116:88 tcp
::1:631 LISTEN :::* tcp6
127.0.1.1:53 0.0.0.0:* udp
0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* udp
192.168.0.10:123 0.0.0.0:* udp
127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* udp
0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* udp
0.0.0.0:12045 0.0.0.0:* udp
:::25512 :::* udp6
::1:123 :::* udp6
fe80::a86:3bff:fe77:123 :::* udp6
:::123 :::* udp6
Routing Table
IP routing table
0.0.0.0 / 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG wlan0
192.168.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U wlan0
ARP Table
ARP Table
192.168.0.1 00:1d:cf:f0:4a:15 wlan0
DNS Servers
Name servers
127.0.1.1
Statistics
IP
34583 Total packets received
12 With invalid addresses
0 Incoming packets discarded
0 Incoming packets discarded
33766 Incoming packets delivered
22128 Requests sent out
46 Dropped because of missing route
ICMP
146 ICMP messages received
12 Input ICMP message failed.
165 ICMP messages sent
0 ICMP messages failed
ICMPMSG
TCP
299 Active connections openings
0 Bad segments received.
8 Failed connection attempts
1 Connection resets received
3 Connections established
32489 Segments received
20782 Segments send out
74 Segments retransmited
0 Bad segments received.
82 Resets sent
UDP
982 Packets received
147 Packets to unknown port received.
0 Packet receive errors
1135 Packets sent
UDPLITE
TCPEXT
137 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer
311 Delayed acks sent
1311 Packets directly queued to recvmsg prequeue.
121094 Bytes directly in process context from backlog
2988599 Bytes directly received in process context from prequeue
25473 Packet headers predicted
2089 Packets header predicted and directly queued to user
1002 Acknowledgments not containing data payload received
258 Predicted acknowledgments
1 Connections reset due to early user close
25 Other TCP timeouts
6 Connections reset due to unexpected data
1 Connections reset due to early user close
3 Connections aborted due to timeout


and last but no least modules:

Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules
xt_limit Xtables: rate-limit match
xt_tcpudp Xtables: TCP, UDP and UDP-Lite match
xt_LOG Xtables: IPv4/IPv6 packet logging
ipt_MASQUERADE Xtables: automatic-address SNAT
xt_DSCP Xtables: DSCP/TOS field modification
ipt_REJECT Xtables: packet "rejection" target for IPv4
nf_conntrack_irc IRC (DCC) connection tracking helper
nf_conntrack_ftp ftp connection tracking helper
xt_state ip[6]_tables connection tracking state match module
iptable_nat
nf_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4
iptable_mangle iptables mangle table
iptable_filter iptables filter table
ip_tables IPv4 packet filter
x_tables {ip,ip6,arp,eb}_tables backend module
bnep Bluetooth BNEP ver 1.3
rfcomm Bluetooth RFCOMM ver 1.11
bluetooth Bluetooth Core ver 2.16
snd_hda_codec_analog Analog Devices HD-audio codec
snd_hda_intel Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec HDA codec core
nouveau nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce
snd_hwdep Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_midi Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
r8712u rtl871x wireless lan driver
snd_rawmidi Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
snd_seq_midi_event MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
kvm_amd
ttm TTM memory manager subsystem (for DRM device)
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
kvm
drm_kms_helper DRM KMS helper
drm DRM shared core routines
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
soundcore Core sound module
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
serio_raw Raw serio driver
k8temp AMD K8 core temperature monitor
nv_tco TCO timer driver for NV chipsets
i2c_algo_bit I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
ppdev
mxm_wmi MXM WMI Driver
i2c_nforce2 nForce2/3/4/5xx SMBus driver
video ACPI Video Driver
mac_hid
parport_pc PC-style parallel port driver
wmi ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
lp
parport
hid_generic HID generic driver
usbhid USB HID core driver
hid
uas
usb_storage USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
sata_nv low-level driver for NVIDIA nForce SATA controller
pata_amd low-level driver for AMD and Nvidia PATA IDE
floppy


Also even though it is one of those preset routers I can't change nothin in here is some of its stats:

TX Power Level:High

B/G/N Mixed BG Protection:enabled Beacon Interval:110 DTIM Interval:1 RTS Threshold 2347 Fragment Threshold 2346 Frame Burst:not enabled
WMM Power Save Mode:enabled

80211N Specific Settings: Channel Bandwidth 20MHZ Guard Interval: 800ns MCS: Auto


forgot to include that I knew my speeds from testmy.net just to assure you all and also tried downloading various things. even torrents never went over 1mb/sec basically

Sorry about the clutter. If this ain't one of the most detailed first writes you've seen on here, I don't know what is. lol
Thanks guy's

[TechAlchemist]

Please post the results from:

dmesg | grep 819

See also:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1705004

[slixz85]

Please post the results from:

dmesg | grep 819

See also:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1705004

[ 0.000000] Memory: 978196k/1014848k available (5962k kernel code, 36192k reserved, 2931k data, 756k init, 101448k highmem)
[ 0.181927] pci 0000:00:10.1: [10de:026c] type 00 class 0x040300
[ 0.181942] pci 0000:00:10.1: reg 10: [mem 0xd2340000-0xd2343fff]
[ 0.181998] pci 0000:00:10.1: PME# supported from D3hot D3cold

[TechAlchemist]

It seems like you aren't using the right drivers for that adapter.

You can try just switching to the correct firmware:

sudo modprobe r8192u_usb

as I think ubuntu should come with this firmware now.

If you have no success with that, try:

modprobe -l | grep r81*

and post the results before you try to build from source.

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
gunzip rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
sudo mv rtl8192sfw.bin /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/

as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post10553443.

You may need to uninstall and/or blacklist your other firmware.

EDIT: It looks like that driver is outdated and only works for the 2.6 kernel. You may need to get a new one and build from source from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...oads=true#2282 (scroll to RTL8188SU and use one of the linux links).

Or you can skip the web interface and get it directly from one of their FTP links:

curl -O ftp://WebUser:Lc9FuH5r@209.222.7.36/cn/wlan/RTL819xSU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20120405.zip