Low Wireless Speed While Using Network Manager

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Manish Kathuria wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 20:59 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 19:22 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a Broadcom BCM94311MCG Wireless Mini PCI Card on my laptop and
>>>>> use the Network Manager on Fedora 9 to connect to the wireless
>>>>> network. I just observed that the Wireless Speed or the Bit Rate does
>>>>> not exceed 2 Mbps even when the laptop is close to the wireless
>>>>> router. The bit rate used to be much higher and even touch 54 Mbps
>>>>> when I had configured the interface directly without using the Network
>>>>> Manager. Even though the current version of Network Manager
>>>>> (NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3623.fc9.x86_64) allows me to edit
>>>>> connection properties but it does not provide any setting for the Bit
>>>>> Rate. Is there a way out to increase the wireless connection speed
>>>>> while using Network Manager ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> --
>>>>> Manish Kathuria
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> The same thin haqppened to me last week. I traced it to my router. Look
>>>> at the web interface of you wireless router is it is
>>>> available.Restarting the router fixed the problem.
>>>> --
>>>>         
>>> Just did that but it didn't help. The bit rate is still stuck at 2 Mbps.
>>>       
>> man iwconfig
>>
>> Try something like iwconfig wlan0 rate auto or iwconfig wlan0 rate 54G
>> or something along those lines.  The part your looking up the info for
>> is near the top, maybe one or two pages down.
>>
>> You may be able to set it via networkmanager gui but not sure
>>
>> --
>> Mike Chambers
>>     
>
> Using iwconfig does not help as long as I am using Network Manager.
> Without using Network Manager and configuring the wireless interface
> through the network scripts I am able to achieve much higher bit
> rates.
>
> --
> Manish
>
>   
I've noticed the same problem and I've been running "iwconfig wlan0 rate 
54G" and the speed seems to increase, although network manager doesn't 
report any change.