Solved slow internet/wifi connection

[HammerNix]

So after searching around the forum/internet for posts where people had a similar problem

slow internet, slow wifi, other distros no problem, ethernet/wifi, no difference, ect.

I narrowed down the common problem everyone has seemed to have had

for many years now…

which was with the latest kernel being out of lockstep with the wifi driver

steps I took to resolve the issue

Looked up my wifi card in terminal

inxi -F | grep iwlwifi

Searched for the name of my wifi card which led me
to a link on linux dash hardware dot org

which pointed out that…

The device is supported by kernel versions [from 5.7 to 5.12]…

I had 5.15-LTS installed, on a fresh manjaro, and was getting 1-3Mb/s download speeds,

So I went into Settings-> Manjaro->Kernel

And picked out 5.10-LTS from the list, a slight downgrade, with the proper support
for my intel wifi card/driver. Installed it.

Rebooted, held shift key to get into grub menu, and selected 5.10-LTS from the advanced grub options

Now internet works perfectly as normal. 20-50-100Mb/s : D

I was real excited after narrowing down the exact problem it seems like a lot of people were having.
Apparently it’s a common problem for manjaro/arch linux in general because of how they differ
in dealing with the kernel compared to other distros.

I think I must have spent 2-3 hours searching countless posts about this problem, and which
all had a wall of text of different solutions and ideas. It occurred to me that the common denominator
was the kernel/driver module for wifi.

Anyways I made an account to share my experience, and hopefully help others, since this is obviously
a common problem on Manjaro/Arch. Good Luck : D

[omano]

@HammerNix

since this is obviously
a common problem on Manjaro/Arch

Hu… no.

There are many things wrong/false in your thread, but as you’re not asking anything, I’m not going to waste more time.

[HammerNix]

Just search for “slow internet arch”

or “slow internet manjaro”

like I did, and others for the past 10+ years

[Nachlese]

@HammerNix

Just search for “slow internet arch”
…

like I did, and others for the past 10+ years

… I’m sure many posts will appear in any search engine interface
for that set of keywords

but the internet/the world is huge

some (or even many) mentions of problems do not mean that there is a real and general problem

[limotux]

@HammerNix

I had 5.15-LTS installed, on a fresh manjaro, and was getting 1-3Mb/s download speeds,

@HammerNix

And picked out 5.10-LTS from the list, a slight downgrade, with the proper support
for my intel wifi card/driver. Installed it.

Rebooted, held shift key to get into grub menu, and selected 5.10-LTS from the advanced grub options

Now internet works perfectly as normal. 20-50-100Mb/s : D

Maybe drivers and linux headers… please check Internet connection is way too slow - #6 by limotux

Maybe you can try with 5.15-LTS

Please let us know how it goes and if this fixes your problem.
Thanks.

[HammerNix]

The problem is already solved!

I explained everything in the first post

so now I will be busy using my high speed internet!

steps I took to resolve the issue

Looked up my wifi card in terminal

inxi -F | grep iwlwifi

Searched for the name of my wifi card which led me
to a link on linux dash hardware dot org

which pointed out that…

The device is supported by kernel versions [from 5.7 to 5.12]…

I had 5.15-LTS installed, on a fresh manjaro, and was getting 1-3Mb/s download speeds,

So I went into Settings-> Manjaro->Kernel

And picked out 5.10-LTS from the list, a slight downgrade, with the proper support
for my intel wifi card/driver. Installed it.

Rebooted, held shift key to get into grub menu, and selected 5.10-LTS from the advanced grub options

Now internet works perfectly as normal. 20-50-100Mb/s : D