I’ve been using Manjaro on my Dell Inspiron 15 5559 laptop for about 9 months now. This is my second Linux distro and my first on a laptop. I’m still pretty much a newbie.
Every wifi connection I’ve made fluctuates from 0 to around 5 Mbps. I was testing online speed today and my test came back 6.75 Mbps download speed and 7.90 upload speed. I’m on a Frontier FiOS service and router and on my desktop and, using the same test, I get 60 Mbps both directions. Before this installation, the laptop also got 60 Mbps in both directions in Windows 10.
This is very frustrating, considering that I used the open source drivers. The onboard wifi is an Intel dual band Wireless AC 3160 adapter.
Is there some setting I’m missing? Should I switch back to the proprietary driver, and if so, how?
I keep seeing other subjects that are for other PCs, but not mine, specifically, so I worry that the solutions won’t work for my setup.
Any assistance or information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
System:
Kernel: 5.10.70-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=90e28e68-e247-45c0-9c4a-fb6e0fdf7682 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=c2d9e0c4-168e-4733-9e91-c688251e1f44
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5559 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 052K07 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell
v: 1.9.0 date: 09/07/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (98.1%) condition: 41.4/41.4 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 16.4 min: 14.8 model: LGC-LGC2.8 DELL T1G4M29 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Unknown
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.48 GiB used: 3.24 GiB (43.4%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-6500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: EA cache:
L2: 4 MiB bogomips: 20810
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900
4: 900
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430 / Radeon
520 Mobile]
vendor: Dell driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:6660 class-ID: 0380
Device-3: Intel Intel RealSense 3D Camera (Front F200) type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 8086:0a66 class-ID: 0e02
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: ati,modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 360x202mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 413mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5")
Monitor-2: HDMI-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 29 size: 1210x680mm (47.6x26.8")
diag: 1388mm (54.6")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Schiit Audio Schiit Modi 3+ type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
bus-ID: 1-2:3 chip-ID: 30be:1014 class-ID: 0102
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.70-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:08b3 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-8:6 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 29.94 GiB (3.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 2D scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: PLDS model: DVD+-RW DU-8A5LH rev: DD11
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 922.71 GiB size: 907.15 GiB (98.31%)
used: 29.94 GiB (3.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 90e28e68-e247-45c0-9c4a-fb6e0fdf7682
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: c2d9e0c4-168e-4733-9e91-c688251e1f44
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2
info: Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0 used by mouse Wireless Desktop 900
type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 045e:07b2 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-2:3 info: Schiit Audio Schiit Modi 3+ type: Audio
driver: snd-usb-audio interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 30be:1014 class-ID: 0102
Device-3: 1-6:4 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-7:5 info: D-WAV Scientific eGalaxTouch EXC3000-0367-44.01.00
type: Mouse driver: hid-multitouch,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0eef:c04d class-ID: 0301
Device-5: 1-8:6 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-3:2 info: Intel Intel RealSense 3D Camera (Front F200)
type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 5 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
power: 440mA chip-ID: 8086:0a66 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 40.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: radeon
temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 220 Uptime: 5h 30m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1309 pacman: 1287 lib: 341
flatpak: 6 snap: 16 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.08
My thanks, in advance!
Pax, harmonia,
BGPhilbin
