Wifi speed is significently low compare to windows os in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (RT3290 wifi wireless router)

Question

I got a new wireless router TP-LINK today. The router was working well with windows os in my laptop. But when I switched back to ubuntu 14.04 (dual boot with windows os) The speed was significantly lower. I am using Ralink rt3290 wifi router. Please help me with the problem, it's really annoying.

Answer 1

This is well known bug with kernel drivers for this adapter.

You can vote there that the bug affects you too.

Or report another bug, since that one is marked as invalid.

Answer 2

I solved the problem by installing driver for Ralink rt3290. I followed this procedure.

1. Download driver from here.
2. Install dkms by sudo apt-get install dkms
3. Extract the rt3290sta-2.6.0.0 directory into /usr/src.
4. Run sudo dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0 --force.
5. Reboot.

I follow this SOURCE.