Wireless connection speed only 1 mb/s with 9.10

[AdamRG]

A question from a complete newbie.

I have a USB wireless adapter that worked fine with 9.04. I upgraded to 9.10, and while the wireless connection is working, the registered speed is only 1 mb/s. Another interesting note is the signal strength seems to be about only at about 50% most of the time as well. With 9.04 the signal strength was at near 100% as my machine is close to the wireless router.

I appreciate any help that you could provide.

[s.dalas]

A question from a complete newbie.

I have a USB wireless adapter that worked fine with 9.04. I upgraded to 9.10, and while the wireless connection is working, the registered speed is only 1 mb/s. Another interesting note is the signal strength seems to be about only at about 50% most of the time as well. With 9.04 the signal strength was at near 100% as my machine is close to the wireless router.

I appreciate any help that you could provide.

When you say registered speed you mean the speed that you can get or the speed that is written if you click connection info? also can you give the output of

lsusb

(write this in terminal and post here the result)

[AdamRG]

That is the info provided when I look at the connection info. Here is the output you requested.

Thanks!

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1058:0901 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. MyBook External HDD
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[s.dalas]

it can see your adaptor... can you also post the output of

iwconfig

?

[AdamRG]

Here it is.

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"2WIRE887"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:B3:44:B7:71
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=46/100 Signal level=46/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[s.dalas]

i suppose you need to have 54mb/s as bit rate.
so try this out.
-disconnect from the network
-open a terminal and type

sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M

-close terminal and reconnect.

Try this and please let us know the results so finally fix it