Mint WiFi Incredibly slow | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:07 AM

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I’m a new Mint user and ever since I installed Mint my home WiFi has been incredibly slow. To the point where websites time out. Idk what it means but I read in a forum that I should paste lsmod | grep iwlwifi in to the terminal and one of my “iwlwifi” lines came back red

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@winged yoke

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I can use my hotspot for necessary stuff but I’d rather not run up my bill

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:09 AM

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disconnect from hotspot. use only your LAN wifi, and test with https://pcmag.speedtestcustom.com/

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:09 AM

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Funny enough trying to switch my band and or channel results in the connection being lost entirely

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It’s uh…so bad the server times out

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I had to use my hotspot to even get to the website

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:13 AM

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turn off mint firewall entirely if on

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:13 AM

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It is

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I know there has to be something coming through cause I’m getting news articles on the homepage of Firefox

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:26 AM

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those may be cached

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from if u ever used the hotspot

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case info here:

📎 message.txt

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show result of nmcli -o

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first with NO HOTSPOT device connected

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then clear the terminal, and run it again and show WITH hotspot connected

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:34 AM

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vale roost I know there has to be something coming through cause I’m getting news articles ...

^

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:38 AM

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Kk

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"Intel Wi-Fi"
wifi (iwlwifi), 60:45:2E:62:3D:F1, hw, mtu 1500
ip4 default, ip6 default
inet4 172.20.10.3/28
route4 172.20.10.0/28 metric 600
route4 default via 172.20.10.1 metric 600
inet6 2607:fb90:8d90:c816:9809:8cec:b15e:b5a6/64
inet6 2607:fb90:8d90:c816:4fac:5dd6:4ded:c8bd/64
inet6 fe80::db9c:d9ed:fd69:d598/64
route6 fe80::/64 metric 1024
route6 2607:fb90:8d90:c816::/64 metric 600
route6 default via fe80::1cf9:d5ff:fece:2364 metric 600

lo: connected (externally) to lo
"lo"
loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536
inet4 127.0.0.1/8
inet6 ::1/128

p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3: disconnected
"p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3"
wifi-p2p, hw

DNS configuration:
servers: 172.20.10.1
interface: wlp0s20f3

    servers: fe80::1cf9:d5ff:fece:2364
    interface: wlp0s20f3

Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and
"nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles.

Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(7) manual pages for complete usage details.

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"Intel Wi-Fi"
wifi (iwlwifi), 60:45:2E:62:3D:F1, hw, mtu 1500
ip4 default, ip6 default
inet4 192.168.1.166/24
route4 192.168.1.0/24 metric 600
route4 default via 192.168.1.1 metric 20600
inet6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8:ef09:c7dc:6713:b3f6/64
inet6 fd00:e8d2:ffbb:3018:8460:8a52:760b:ba1e/64
inet6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8::1b4e/128
inet6 fd00:e8d2:ffbb:3018::1b4e/128
inet6 fd00:e8d2:ffbb:3018:f6d:9a61:ea8e:cb6a/64
inet6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8:1e07:eab2:4fa7:a71e/64
inet6 fe80::a565:5628:794c:417d/64
route6 fe80::/64 metric 1024
route6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8::/64 metric 600
route6 fd00:e8d2:ffbb:3018::/64 metric 600
route6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8::/64 via fe80::ead2:ffff:febb:301a metric 605
route6 default via fe80::ead2:ffff:febb:301a metric 20600
route6 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8::1b4e/128 metric 600
route6 fd00:e8d2:ffbb:3018::1b4e/128 metric 600
route6 fd1d:7d6a:6f51:1::/64 via fe80::a7a4:f13f:e7e6:3587 metric 600

lo: connected (externally) to lo
"lo"
loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536
inet4 127.0.0.1/8
inet6 ::1/128

p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3: disconnected
"p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3"
wifi-p2p, hw

DNS configuration:
servers: 192.168.1.1
domains: lan
interface: wlp0s20f3

    servers: 2600:6c4a:6b40:fd8::1
    domains: lan
    interface: wlp0s20f3

Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and
"nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles.

Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(7) manual pages for complete usage details.

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:44 AM

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which of 2 is hotspot? i presume first one

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:46 AM

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yeah

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:47 AM

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route4 default via 192.168.1.1 metric 20600

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that metric indicates it's going thru a shitload of hops

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:47 AM

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oof

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:47 AM

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instead of direct path

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:48 AM

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how does one like...STOP that from happening preferably

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:48 AM

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idk. someone else can offer input on this in due time

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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so basically all of my packets are getting stuck somewhere along the line and looping

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 5:53 AM

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idk. is it one router not far physically, or a crapload of mesh-network nodes / access points in your building?

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 5:56 AM

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nope

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its about 35-40ft away with no closed walls

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imma go unplug it

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I forgot the WiFi, unplugged the router and the modem and now I’m just waiting

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Welp that did jack

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This sounds like a “wait for someone with more knowledge to come along”

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 6:12 AM

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indeed.

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 6:13 AM

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I can’t wait for much longer though is the issue

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I’ve got stuff to do

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If you know anyone send em my way

winged yoke Mar 19, 2026, 6:14 AM

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can borrow a wifi usb dongle and test if that works any better on your WLAN

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 6:16 AM

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Unfortunately I don’t know anyone with one, and ordering one would take too long. Also I’ve dumped 100$ in to hardware for this already so

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Also both of my usb ports are being taken up by my mouse and keyboard (I somehow wore my laptop keyboard out)

vale roost Mar 19, 2026, 6:35 AM

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result of the route -n command

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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 20600 0 0 wlp0s20f3
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 600 0 0 wlp0s20f3

vale roost Mar 20, 2026, 3:41 AM

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@winged yoke It appears to be a Linux issue as Fedora works fine

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