Hello. For the past few weeks, I’ve been dealing with an unyielding problem wherein my desktop PC has been stuck hovering between 5-20mbps network speed, as corroborated by multiple speed-testing websites. Specifically, this seems to only occur hours AFTER a the distro is initially installed. On a fresh installation, or on a live boot, this problem does not exist, and I can hit speeds up to and over 500mbps. It takes time to fully manifest, first as initial connectivity drops, progressing into those lows becoming the norm. I would like to apologize beforehand in case I forget to add any details, as I have been troubleshooting this for weeks, and have tried many solutions, through which I have found only one stopgap measure, and it is only a bypass rather than a solution.
I am on Fedora 44 KDE Plasma with, as of 6/6/26, as inauspicious a date as it is, the latest updates to the OS.
Finally, I would also like to preface that this issue STARTED on Nobara, which assisted in precipitating my transition to base Fedora. However, this behavior was identical between both Nobara and Fedora. At this point I do not know what to believe.
This issue started appearing when our ISP, Xfinity, insisted that we replace our router with a new model. I was personally against it, yet had little decision in the matter. I cannot imagine how it could have caused this problem, yet I feel obligated to mention it regardless.
I have asked a couple times at different points in the day on Fedora Chat to gather multiple potential solutions, and have come up dry, on top of extensive Internet searching. Ethernet is not an option, unfortunately, and I will be lucky if it ever becomes one.
The attempted solutions I have tried:
Creation of a config file to set wifi.powersave = 2
Adding a pcie_aspm = off configuration
Purchasing a wireless USB antenna
Disabling IPv6
Rebooting. Repeatedly.
The only “solution” I have found to work was to connect my phone via USB tethering and ape off of its wi-fi, which easily runs up to 200mbps.
A final note is some confusion I found when researching my model of motherboard. I found the original vendor’s page, and it lists the motherboard as having a QCNCM865, which does not appear to match my system.
Attached below is the readout of inxi -Fxxz
Kernel: 7.0.11-200.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: N/A
Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X870E AORUS PRO v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: X870E AORUS PRO serial: <superuser required>
Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC. v: F12a date: 03/11/2026
Battery:
Device-1: ps-controller-battery-e8:47:3a:4e:45:0b model: N/A serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: full
CPU:
Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 5
rev: 0 cache: L1: 1.2 MiB L2: 16 MiB L3: 64 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 624 min/max: 624/5756 boost: enabled cores: 1: 624
2: 624 3: 624 4: 624 5: 624 6: 624 7: 624 8: 624 9: 624 10: 624 11: 624
12: 624 13: 624 14: 624 15: 624 16: 624 17: 624 18: 624 19: 624 20: 624
21: 624 22: 624 23: 624 24: 624 25: 624 26: 624 27: 624 28: 624 29: 624
30: 624 31: 624 32: 624 bogomips: 274665
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070 Ti] vendor: Lenovo driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
active: DP-3,HDMI-A-3 empty: DP-4,DP-5 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2782
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,
Writeback-1 bus-ID: 79:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:13c0 temp: 31.0 C
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.12 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: nouveau d-rect: 6880x1440 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-3 pos: primary,left model: CR340HD res: 3440x1440 hz: 120
dpi: 110 diag: 862mm (33.9")
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-3 pos: right model: CR340HD res: 3440x1440 hz: 100
dpi: 110 diag: 864mm (34")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: zink device: 1 drv: radeonsi
device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: zink surfaceless: drv: zink wayland:
drv: zink x11: drv: zink
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 26.0.8 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: zink Vulkan 1.4(NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
(NVK AD104) (MESA_NVK)) device-ID: 10de:2782 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: mesa nvk device-ID: 10de:2782 device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:13c0 device: 2 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD104 High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22bc
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 79:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 79:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
Device-4: Sony DualSense Edge wireless controller (PS5)
driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:7 chip-ID: 054c:0df2
API: ALSA v: k7.0.11-200.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm WCN785x Wi-Fi 7 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800]
vendor: Foxconn driver: ath12k_wifi7_pci v: N/A pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 0d:00.0 chip-ID: 17cb:1107
IF: wlp13s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 0e:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
IF: enp14s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Sony DualSense Edge wireless controller (PS5)
driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:7 chip-ID: 054c:0df2
Device-4: NetGear Wireless_Device driver: mt7921u type: USB rev: 3.2
speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 4-4:2 chip-ID: 0846:9060
IF: wlp19s0u4 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 0489:e10d
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.98 TiB used: 336.53 GiB (11.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000T705SSD3 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 126 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 43.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS001TEJ9X102N
size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 40.9 C
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 232.88 GiB
type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 335.38 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 928.8 MiB (47.7%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 20 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 335.38 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 30.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.44 GiB used: 5.56 GiB (18.2%)
Processes: 643 Power: uptime: 1h 56m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 26
Compilers: gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
