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First some info
Laptop= HP Probook 450 G1 i5
Dual Boot Win7 Pro/Deepin
Ram = 8Gb
Wifi = Intel 3160

Okay, so I installed Ubuntu Wednesday Night, but on my laptop and the new version of Ubuntu just did not like each other,the wifi was so slow.

I got the slow wifi fix with the Help of Serg, mikewhatever and Trinadh venea, (Again Thank You) but it was just not giving me what I wanted.

So Thursday Night I installed Deepin, and yes I know that it is based off of Ubuntu but it just was such a nicer looking OS.

Okay so now to what I did. I noticed that after the install the wifi SUCKED, and I mean worst then Ubuntu, but the Ethernet connection was great but the wifi not so much.

So I went back the my first post and went into the wifi setting and set IPv6 to Ignore and the speed got better, but not good enough.

So I looked around the net and found someone that had downloaded the updated drive for their wifi adaptor and I followed the instruction and installed the updated firmwear.
BIG MISTAKE. I LOST WIFI and Bluetooth. Thank God I made a backup of the firmware and just re-install them, but here is the weird thing the Wifi is now a lot faster.

Questions:
(1) Has anyone else stumbled on this.
(2) Is there a way to speed up the connection speed by tweaking the setting like SG TCP Optimizer for Windows.

Hannu
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Ubuntu has better driver/hardware support than even some of the distros based off of Ubuntu.

For instance, when I made the switch to Linux, Debian & Mint did not have the wireless driver that I needed, and another (non-Ubuntu based distro) had a working wireless driver that flat out sucked.

Instead of using the current driver, you could remove it (back it up first) and use the Linux driver that Intel provides. http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm

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