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HP DV6000 Wireless G Broadcom

Netgear WNDR3400 router properly configured.

Windows laptops using wireless G and N are considerably faster than mine.

12.04 LTS, all restricted drivers and all up to date.

50Mbps wired and 9-21 Mbps wireless on Ubuntu.

00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL [103c:30b7]

Kernel driver in use: forcedeth

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1370] Kernel driver in use: wl

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Can you add the output of lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net to the question. – mikewhatever Jun 19 '12 at 4:28
U got it. Thanks in advance! – Rhino Jun 21 '12 at 2:13
Thanks. The wireless is a BCM4311, so you may want to try another driver. Check out this answer for info on installing it. – mikewhatever Jun 21 '12 at 5:16

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