Slow Painful WiFi speed Ubuntu
I dual booted Ubuntu 18.04.5 with Windows 10 Pro 21h1.
In windows and all other devices I'm getting 50 Mbps but when I use Ubuntu 18.04.5 I get 1Mbps max. In WiFi settings it displays link speed as same.
Here are the configs
wlp3s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"SSID"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:27 Missed beacon:0
Look at the BitRate here.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0
version: 31
serial: 00:00:00:00:00:00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=5.4.0-81-generic firmware=WLAN.TF.2.1-00021-QCARMSWP-1 ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:131 memory:b4000000-b41fffff
It gives okay speed with mobile hotspot but behaves like a snail with WiFi router only.
I turned off the power management for the wlp3s0.
I found something in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf saying
# For some Atheros 5K RF MACs, the madwifi driver loads buts fails to
# correctly initialize the hardware, leaving it in a state from
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
# madwifi from loading by default. Use Jockey to select one driver
# or the other. (Ubuntu: #315056, #323830)
blacklist ath_pci
I can sense some problem with the iwlwifi.conf as well but as much as I understand it's a driver for Intel hardware but my WiFi is Qualcomm so I don't know what that have to do with it.
I have tried several others remedies which Google and Youtube offers but the Bit Rate remains the same as 1 Mb/s.
Any Help would be appreciated.
edit 1.0 : My phone supports enabling WiFi and Hotspot at the same time so I connect my phone to the router and Ubuntu machine to the phone's hotspot. It lead to getting 20Mbps on Ubuntu Machine. (It's link speed still shows 1 Mbps anyhow). However the router to Ubuntu Machine speed is 0.25-1.0 Mbps.
This card is notorious for it's sluggishness. There is a 3rd-party firmware available if you'd like to give it a try, though.
Here's how to install it:
- Open Terminal (if it's not already open)
- Go to the firmware directory for the card:
cd /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/
- Rename two existing files (so they're not lost)
sudo mv firmware-5.bin firmware-5.bin.orig sudo mv firmware-6.bin firmware-6.bin.orig
- Get the 3rd-party firmware:
sudo wget "https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/CNSS.TF.1.0/firmware-5.bin_CNSS.TF.1.0-00267-QCATFSWPZ-1?raw=true" -O firmware-5.bin
- Reload the kernel module:
sudo modprobe -r ath10k_pci sudo modprobe ath10k_pci sudo dmesg | grep ath10k
That should give you proper transmission speeds.