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Fork of rtl8xxxu driver with SDIO support
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Connection is slower than on Windows driver #4

Open gamelaster opened 5 years ago

gamelaster commented 5 years ago

There is benchmarks of various drivers for RTL8723BU:

gamelaster commented 5 years ago

iw dev wlan0 station dump

Station 74:b5:7e:11:97:08 (on wlan0)
        inactive time:  3676 ms
        rx bytes:       133182
        rx packets:     825
        tx bytes:       16013
        tx packets:     119
        tx retries:     0
        tx failed:      0
        beacon loss:    0
        beacon rx:      365
        rx drop misc:   12
        signal:         -68 dBm
        signal avg:     -68 dBm
        beacon signal avg:      188 dBm
        tx bitrate:     1.0 MBit/s
        *rx bitrate:     6.5 MBit/s MCS 0*
        authorized:     yes
        authenticated:  yes
        associated:     yes
        preamble:       long
        WMM/WME:        yes
        MFP:            no
        TDLS peer:      no
        DTIM period:    1
        beacon interval:100
        connected time: 38 seconds
anarsoul commented 4 years ago

I think this upstream commit should fix the issue:

commit 18e714687bea7f9f5155625aec04e335c0022128
Author: Chris Chiu <chiu@endlessm.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 4 18:55:28 2019 +0800

    rtl8xxxu: Fix wifi low signal strength issue of RTL8723BU