FIXING LOW BANDWIDTH ISSUE W/ RT2X00 AND UBUNTU 9.04
Added on 2009-07-07 Under:
There's currently a bug in Ubuntu 9.04 causing rt2x00 based wireless cards to have their bit rate set at 1 Mb/s. This in turn causes bandwidth to hover around 40 Kb/s. In the past I've manually installed the serial monkey drivers but this time I wanted to still use the NetworkManager applet so I could vpn into my home network. The fix for the issue was surprisingly simple:
ben@Akula:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
After installing the backports, I simply rebooted my pc and my card's bit rate was set to where it belongs - 54 Mb/s. Finally, I can surf at full speed without having to set the bit rate manually!