Sunday, April 17, 2016

Wireless Very weak and slow on Ubuntu Macbook pro 8.3?

The question says it all. I have ubuntu running on a macbook pro 8.3. It connects but the signal is very weak. When I boot using the Mac, the wireless is very fast and reliable. The relevant output nm-tool is





Type: 802.11 WiFi Driver: b43 State:
connected Default: yes HW Address:
28:CF:DA:D4:3B:C4



Capabilities:



Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes



Wireless Access Points

wifi-nu: Infra, 00:24:6C:81:14:00, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 40 WPA2 Enterprise
Milk Digital Admin: Infra, 0C:85:25:68:BB:D3, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 29 WPA WPA2
Legs Admin: Infra, 0C:85:25:68:BB:D5, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 32 WPA WPA2




It keeps droping and is significantly slower. Also, I installed the driver as recommended by the ubuntu macbook support



Please help

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