edits: minor verbiage changes, added some info
Absolutely going crazy trying to solve this issue. After perusing these forums and others about why my internet speed might be so much slower while using Manjaro in comparison to Windows on a dual-boot PC, I have tried changing my kernel (now on 5.15 LTS) to confirmed known good with my network card, checking all of drivers and firmware, reinstalling said firmware, and rebooting too many times to count between reading potential solutions on here. I am at a loss.
On average my wireless speed on here is now topping out at 20Mbps… on the Windows 10 LTSC side of the dual boot, it is at an absolute minimum 8 times as fast.
Checking with dmesg | grep firmware confirms that I am running the proper firmware version.
My wireless card is a built-in Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3186. The one post I saw that was seemingly exactly what I was looking for (a different solution to most) eventually linked to a forum post on here that is no longer accessible unfortunately…
Running inxi -Fazy yields the following:
System:
Kernel: 5.15.144-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=f947438b-c753-4ef8-be42-58c572ad4f37 rw splash
udev.log_priority=3 amd_iommu=on
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550 UD AC v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550 UD AC serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American
Megatrends LLC. v: F3 Y1 date: 01/19/2022
Battery:
ID-1: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 90% condition: N/A volts: 4.1 min: N/A
model: Logitech G903 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse w/ HERO type: N/A
serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xA201205
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB
desc: 1x32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3309 high: 4342 min/max: 2200/4650 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3314 2: 3600
3: 2939 4: 3016 5: 2874 6: 2932 7: 3588 8: 3895 9: 4342 10: 2922 11: 2873
12: 3414 bogomips: 88664
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: safe RET, no microcode
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of
2023-11; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2482 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Logitech C920 PRO HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-4.3:6
chip-ID: 046d:08e5 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x2160 s-dpi: 91 s-size: 535x602mm (21.06x23.70")
s-diag: 805mm (31.71")
Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: top res: 1920x1080 dpi: 90
size: 544x303mm (21.42x11.93") diag: 623mm (24.52") modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: primary,bottom res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92
size: 532x304mm (20.94x11.97") diag: 613mm (24.12") modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.274 layers: 5 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 device-ID: 10de:2482
surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 08:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k5.15.144-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.052.01-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-6:4 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.81 GiB (98.31%)
used: 262.73 GiB (28.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 45 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 325 Uptime: 1h 26m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 16 GiB
available: 15.52 GiB used: 3.97 GiB (25.5%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: 1235 pm: pacman pkgs: 1223 libs: 352 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 12 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.21
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31