Problem with RealTek Wireless Connection Speed

[jadams35]

I've got a RealTEK onboard Wireless b/g/10/100 card on my laptop, newly running Kubuntu 9.10.

The wireless card does connect to my wireless router, but only at 1Mbit/sec. It should be connecting at G speeds, ~10MBit/sec.

I am assuming it is a default driver that is causing the problem. r8169 is the module in the kernel.

I have the Linux device driver from RealTek supporting kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x. The readme looks straight forward enough to apply this driver to my kernel, but this is new territory for me. I am thus hesitant.

Is this the right approach to take to solve my slow wireless connection problem?

Thanks.

Jeremiah

[skitchens]

Re: Problem with RealTek Wireless Connection Speed

i know that i have ALWAYS gotten better speeds on WiFi from ndiswrapper and windows drivers than by using native linux drivers. i also have a realtek chipset card and my signal strength is easily 10x greater with ndiswrapper. maybe try that.