After a recent update (I’m on the unstable branch), I’ve noticed that the WiFi performance (especially on browser) has become extremely slow. Speedtest apps show that the connection itself is fine and has the same bandwidth, but browsing has become really laggy.
Is this happening to others as well ? Any idea why this could be?
I am running kernel 5.9.4-1 , on a HP x360 Pavilion laptop that uses a Realtek WiFi adapter (RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac)
what is the source of the browser? third party? repos? aur?
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I am using Brave browser as my primary browser. The issue persists in Chromium, Firefox and Chrome as well. I have Bitwarden, uBlockOrigin as the only extensions on Brave. No extensions on other browsers (downloaded only for testing). Safe mode did not fix the issue. Browsers were installed from Manjaro repos. Brave version is. 1.16.67.1 (official release)
When I boot into Windows, I do not face the issue. That told me that it’s probably not the browser that’s the culprit. I have the exact same browser setup in Windows.
Thanks. Tried this as well. There’s marginal improvement.
However, there’s still a MARKED difference in page load times when compared with Windows. (same website, same browser - load time in Manjaro is at least 10 secs more)
It’s on all browsers for me. Brave, Chromium, Chrome, Vivaldi, Firefox - all with the same problem.
I’ve also noticed that once the main page loads, the sub links are very fast to load. For e.g. forum.manjaro.org takes over 15 seconds to load, but once open it is very fast to navigate threads and links within the page.
Same for a news site like nytimes.com. Main page takes over 10 seconds to load, but once open individual articles load up really quickly.
Not sure what the issue is. I tried changing DNS but that didn’t help either.
I was also having an issue with slow upload speeds (20Mbit/s) with an Intel AX200 wireless card and Kernel 5.10.2-2 and 5.9.16-1. When I installed LTS kernel 5.4.85-1, I had normal performance again (300+Mbit/s).