Slow wifi dongle

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Hi, I’m new to linux. I have a problem with slow download speeds with my newly purchased wifi dongle. The dongle is using the MT-7601 chipset which should be supported by the kernel.

I’m using my phone as a hotspot and getting about 1MB/s download speeds, which can’t be right. On the dongle package it says it is able to do 150 Mbps. If I use USB-tethering I get about 35MB/s download.

If I type ‘lsusb’ in the terminal, it shows up as ‘MT7601U Wireless Adapter’.

I am currently running Fedora 41 Kde amd64.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Run nm-connection-editor in terminal select your_hotspot connection and change band default automatic to 2.4 Ghz and channel to 11.Save changes and see how is preformed after applying changes.

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No change in download speed.

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Ok go to ipv6 settings and disable it default is automatic and try like that

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Still no change.

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One B = 8b.

So 35 x 8 = 280.

Which is almost twice as fast as the manufacturers claim.

1MB is normal for a mobile phone download. My 4G goes between 250kB/s and 2MB/s depending on network load. My 5G can go up to 4MB/s.

So sounds like your dongle is behaving normally and your USB tethering is blindingly fast. Lucky you.