Heya y’all, a few weeks ago I made the switch to dual boot fedora and windows 11, and for the most part it’s been a fun experience, except for the wifi. On my (still active) windows install, my phone, and my tablet, speedtest.net records about 100-200 Mbps on the same wifi within inches of each other, but on fedora I am lucky to get over 5 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload. I am on fedora 37, Kernel 6.1.12-200.fc37.x86_64, this has been happening since I first installed, with I believe 6.1.9 or 6.1.8, and the command
Collect some data – see man 7 nmcli-examples. doas nmcli dev wifi list shows BSSID’s, speeds, and channels.
check for wifi issues using journalctl. Some users (myslef included) see a lot of disconnects, switching channels or AP’s with 6.1 kernels that didn’t occur with
Do you use 5Ghz wifi?
does performance increase when linux is booted from power-off?
Does your BIOS offer PXE boot options? Some systems activate wifi early to allow PXE booting (useful for big server farms, but also student labs).