Slow wifi on Asus Z13 2025 Fedora KDE 42, Mediatek MT7925

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I am using an ASUS Flow Z13 2025 that has a Mediatek MT7925 networking card(chip?) and on Fedora KDE 42 I am getting 1/5 (30-40mbps vs 180-200mbps) the internet speeds as the windows install on the same hardware. I have tried creating the power-save-off.conf file with

[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2

but that has had no effect. Disabling bluetooth has no effect. It appears as though I am on the latest kernel(6.18.8-100.fc42.x86_64 and wifi driver(mt7xxx-firmware-20260110-1.fc42.noarch).

Am I doing something wrong with how I am trying to disable power save? Is there something else to try?

Thanks for any help.

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There are problems with some MediaTek Wifi chips and Linux.

There are a few possible ways to address the issue in the thread I linked. It might be easier to change your wifi chip to a fully supported one, like an Intel.

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I do not believe that’s possible for my device.

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It does not look like fun, but it is possible. I can see the M2 wifi chip inside a bit after half way into the video.

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That’s not the same device version, but interesting none the less.