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Running my laptop with elementary OS makes my WiFi LAN slow for others

Asked by Amit

I am running elementary OS on my laptop. Whenever I connect my laptop to my home Wireless-LAN, it makes other devices connected to the same LAN slow to the point that they almost lose connection to the internet.

 - The same laptop doesn't do this with Windows 7 (that I used on this till 3 months ago).

 - It doesn't create this issue if I run this laptop on Ubuntu.

- Changed the WiFi router in the off chance that there was an issue with that. Still the same issue.

Completely bewildered. Has anyone else come across this issue? Is there a setting issue that I should deal with?

All help will be appreciated. Thanks.

-AT

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kay van der Zander (kay20) said : 		#1

how are the other devices connected?
are all on Wireless-LAN ?

does this problem also occur when one device is on kabel network?

can u attach a file of all installed packages
how to do this? typ this in terminal "dpkg -l > ~/output.txt
the file will be in your home directory.

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Amit (mail-amit-thakur) said : 		#2

Kay,

Thank you for the revert. Most of the devices on my LAN are on WiFi. A few are on wired ethernet. The ones on wired ethernet do not suffer this slowing. It is only the ones on WiFi LAN that get messed-up.

My package list is at http://www.rbm-motors.com/siteroot/output1.txt

Regards,
Amit

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Amit (mail-amit-thakur) said : 		#3

...and to add more context, I ran the same laptop on Elementary off a USB now and that DID NOT slow the network down.

Just in case that is relevant at all, apart from the standard install, I have changed the theme of my installation using Tweaks.

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kay van der Zander (kay20) said : 		#4

Amit,

Sorry for the taking so long to get back to your question. we do not get a heads up when some one replies.

So if i'm correct it is only with your own laptop that takes a way the wifi signal?
It is known that all routers not always perform at the max. When more devices added more power the router uses to send wifi signals.

When there are 2 devices active it is known that they catch each other signal away.
It is possible that your laptop has a better wifi card which results in disappear of wifi signals for other devices.
When you noticed this is only on linux. Than it can be that your driver you using now has issues.

in your list of installed packages i do not find anything unusual. if you know which wifi card you have you could find newer driver.
When there are newer drivers you could try them. you can find here how to get to know this information http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-wireless-driver-chipset/.

if you find the linux drivers not sutable for you, you could try this: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43752/how-to-install-a-wireless-card-in-linux-using-windows-drivers/ with this you can install windows drivers under linux

kind regards,
Kay

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