Comment 43 for bug 124159

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Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark) wrote : Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

WOW. That worked. Keep heart Thom!

Chris

Christoph wrote:
> I'm experiencing this problem on my machine equipped with a Linksys PCI Wireless Adapter (Broadcom 4306 Rev. 02 Chipset), too.
> However, manually setting the bitrate on the adapter to a low value seems to help a lot:
>
> After executing:
> $ sudo iwconfig eth2 rate 5.5M fixed
>
> my max. download rate now is at 360 kb/s again (that's line limit,
> actually), while it was around 40 kb/s before, and the automatic adapter
> bitrate setting was constantly at 24MBit/s.
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