Thread: Wireless DL very slow (Ralink RT2860/Realtek RTL8111)

hey y'all, linux noob here (so of course i'm using unity in natty narwhal). wireless download rate absurdly low (0.3 mbps) compared faster upload rate (1.5 mbps). girlfriend's laptop running windows gets higher download rate (20+ mbps). saw posts similar problems elsewhere , people ask info when terminal lshw -c network i'm posting below. please keep in mind while i'm willing try still pretty green , use hand-holding in walking through solution. have decided swear off windows , macs , have moved on 100% linux want work , love make use of community support hear such great things about. thank in advance.

*-network
description: wireless interface
product: rt2860
vendor: ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 70:71:bc:df:e4:69
width: 32 bits
clock: 33mhz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=0.11 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=ieee 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:f9ff0000-f9ffffff
*-network
description: ethernet interface
product: rtl8111/8168b pci express gigabit ethernet controller
vendor: realtek semiconductor co., ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 6c:62:6d:c8:b0:d7
size: 10mbit/s
capacity: 1gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33mhz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3lk-napi duplex=half latency=0 multicast=yes port=mii speed=10mbit/s
resources: irq:44 ioport:d800(size=256) memory:fbdff000-fbdfffff memory:f8ff0000-f8ffffff memory:fbdc0000-fbddffff

additional information: receive strong wireless signal not think culprit. wireless router linksys wrt150n recent firmware. saw ask time wget www.google.com , time host www.cisco.com similar problem... here results:

amore@revolution:~$ time wget www.google.com
--2011-07-01 05:44:14-- http://www.google.com/
resolving www.google.com... 74.125.67.104, 74.125.67.105, 74.125.67.106, ...
connecting www.google.com|74.125.67.104|:80... connected.
http request sent, awaiting response... 200 ok
length: unspecified [text/html]
saving to: `index.html'

[ <=> ] 9,843 --.-k/s in 0.04s

2011-07-01 05:44:18 (268 kb/s) - `index.html' saved [9843]


real 0m4.019s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.000s
amore@revolution:~$ time host www.cisco.com
www.cisco.com alias www.cisco.com.akadns.net.
www.cisco.com.akadns.net alias geoprod.cisco.com.akadns.net.
geoprod.cisco.com.akadns.net alias www.cisco.com.edgekey.net.
www.cisco.com.edgekey.net alias www.cisco.com.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net.
www.cisco.com.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net alias e144.cd.akamaiedge.net.
e144.cd.akamaiedge.net has address 72.247.200.170

real 0m5.560s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.008s

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