I can confirm that the instructions mentioned by William Scheidegger (thanks a lot !!!) in post #334 work after updating the kernel to 2.6.35-28.
$ lspci -vnn | grep -A 1 Wireless 06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:1000] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44 $ uname -a Linux nandan-Aspire-5920 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux ----------------------------------- On the other hand, just using the "linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-2.6.35-28-generic" package did improve the download speeds at all. Therefore I had to compile and install the latest compat-wireless drivers from : http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2011-03-26.tar.bz2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs