from scheep@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 02 May 15:54
https://lemmy.world/post/29016364
For context, I just installed Fedora Workstation and I am dual-booting alongside Windows.
For some strange reason, download speeds are hovering around 200 KB/s, and sometimes randomly dropping to below 70KB/s. This occurs when I boot into either Windows or Fedora. Before installing Fedora, my speeds were usually >50MB/s, sometimes a couple hundred MB/s if the network isn’t very busy. This might be an issue with network drivers being weird since I’m dual booting, or maybe I need to manually install drivers for Fedora.
(for comparison my phone, using the same network, has >100MB/s download speeds)
EDIT: I’ve updated to Fedora 42 and network speeds are now in the MB/s again. Not sure what happened. Now it seems that when I install from “flatpak-1” rather than just “flatpak” speeds are great. Also, dnf install has good speeds now.
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what network card are you using? are you downloading from the same websites that you get faster download speeds from on windows?
Just generally installing things like blender, inkscape, etc. normally takes around a minute on Windows (before dual booting) but is estimated like over 2 hours on both Fedora and Windows (after dual booting) since speeds are sub 100KB/s…
try using any other device on the same network. could also be a network issue if windows and linux are having issues. run a network speed test on your phone and laptop.
Yeah, my phone’s download speeds are fine (>100MB/s)
I’m using a laptop, so I would guess probably a built-in Intel one.
run lspci and see which wireless adapter you have
my network controller is “Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi” (after running “lspci”, there doesn’t seem to be any other network-related ones besides that)
all intel drivers should be in the kernel, do you have the iwlwifi package installed?
pretty werd because dual booting shouldn’t influence download speeds
Are you using the package manager? If yes, try refreshing your mirrors.
If this happens to Windows as well, it’s unlikely that it’s Fedora’s fault. Something else is at play.
I have thought it might be because dual booting makes the drivers confused or soemrhing
Drivers are on the computer, firmware is in the component. Firmware can be updated in both windows and Linux and will affect both systems. Drivers live solely on the OS, so fedora drivers will not be affecting windows. There’s an incredibly small chance that your firmware was updated and caused this, but I don’t recall a firmware update ever occurring automatically on Linux, I’ve always had to do it manually.
I gave of MacOS when an OS update included a firmware rollback which disabled gigabit Ethernet on the NIC. So the Fedora install.may have updated the firmware or changed a firmware setting.
maybe
Aside from this issue, Fedora has been great! Everything works as expected, UI is fast and snappy, and somehow the file system seems to be a bit faster too (read/write speeds are more consistent)
how is the signal strength? did you open up the laptop to swap the ssd or something?
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I found a similar issue here: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=281910
It looks like disabling 802.11ax fixed the issue.
A post on StackExchange shows a user that was having this issue in Windows as well (and solved it by disabling 802.11ax) and was looking for instructions on disabling it in Linux.
So it sounds like some Intel wifi cards have issues with 802.11ax, disabling it makes the card use 802.11ac which seems to work just fine.
Are you using WiFi? If so disable WiFi power management unix.stackexchange.com/…/how-to-turn-off-wireless…