Re: Wifi performance problem

Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> wrote:

My thinkpad is almost the same model number as yours. I've noticed that I get good speeds (5+mb/sec) over the wifi in Windows, but only around 40kb/sec in Linux. I'm guessing poor Linux driver support is to blame.

Possibly, but in my case it was the Intel firmware. Loading the version of the firmware supplied for my card at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi#Firmware improved performance and reliability somewhat. The version of the firmware included in the Debian package, on the other hand, was much less reliable. The laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad X200, with an Intel IWL5100/5300 card (it's variously reported as either 5100 or 5300 by different tools, as I recall).