The Speed of N

[Dougie187]

Well. I just went through the process of installing all the guys crap (its bascially custom compiled kernels and stuff...) and.... the result, is that it didnt change crap.

I wouldn't waste your time installing it, just wait for intrepid i guess.

[Dougie187]

Has anyone else messed with this anymore? I still haven't got anywhere..

[Dougie187]

Has anyone tried wireless n on ibex yet? I remember someone said it should have support, maybe it was in the buglist or something. But it would be cool to see if anyone had any experiences with this yet.

[aleksabl]

Hi there,

I've got Intel iwl4965 (ABGN), and 802.11n seems to be working here. Even though the network-manager applet and iwlist are only reporting 802.11g-speeds (maximum of 54mbits), the router says that my computer are connected with 802.11n and 130mbits..

[Dougie187]

I have an iwl4965 (ABGN) as well, and a n router. But I'm not seeing anything that would make me think that I am getting n speeds. I have linux-backports installed too as per the recommendations in the release notes from ubuntu.com.

[dbhsatx]

I am using the iwl4965agn under intrepid. iwlist shows 54m as max speed but my D-link615 router shows the laptop is connected at 130m

[Saneless]

My router shows anywhere between 54 and 117-120.. But the actual transfer speed was still never faster than 2MB/s, same as it was with my G router. Just because it says it connects at N doesn't mean ubuntu is flinging out data at that speed.

[hansheijmans]

Hi there,

I'm using the Netgear WN511B wireless card and the Netgear WNR834Bv2 router (both N capable) but I can't get N to work. The highest bitrate I can get is 54 Mb/s. I'm using the latest Broadcom STA drivers.

Any suggestions?

[pytheas22]

I'm using the Netgear WN511B wireless card and the Netgear WNR834Bv2 router (both N capable) but I can't get N to work. The highest bitrate I can get is 54 Mb/s. I'm using the latest Broadcom STA drivers.

What's the output of these commands:

iwconfig
lshw -C Network
lspci -nn | grep -i broadcom

[Dougie187]

Hi there,

I'm using the Netgear WN511B wireless card and the Netgear WNR834Bv2 router (both N capable) but I can't get N to work. The highest bitrate I can get is 54 Mb/s. I'm using the latest Broadcom STA drivers.

Any suggestions?

From what I have been able to tell, you get N speeds, even though you aren't told you are getting N speeds.

I have read in other places that iwconfig and such tools in a terminal don't accurately tell you the speed of N connections. Either way, I would go online and benchmark your connection to see if it's close to N, or at least better than G. You could also preform some benchmarks with another networked computer doing simple file transfers and watching peak transfer speed. Preferably the other computer would be hardlined.