I switched from traditional windows to ubuntu because of many reasons but the most important was its security from various types of viruses and also because of its internet speed. While former remains the same in ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) , latter was absent. And this was not the problem with me indeed i found many forums in which all newbies to ubuntu 11.04 complained about the same problem. The net speed is very slow slower than in windows... a big reason to worry. In earlier versions of ubuntu, the great internet speed was the main advantage but this is not the same with this 11.04 version. So i finally figured out what was the thing going on behind the scene that was responsible for this great damage. It is this new Power Management settings in ubuntu 11.04(NattyNarwhal) that is causing less power to be supplied to the wireless internet device which is responsible for the slower internet speed. So to overcome this problem we are going to turn off power management by ubuntu for wireless internet device by following the following steps................
firstly go to File System and check whether the path etc/pm/power.d is present or not..
if its not present then you have to make this directory structure using mkdir
now if its present then follow the given steps-
1. Open the terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/pm/power.d/wireless
2. Enter your password. A gedit window titled wireless will pop up. Most probably it would be blank and you would see an empty document.
3. Now just add these lines to the empty document
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power off
4. Save the document and close it and close the terminal window.
5. Now simply reboot your system and you are done.
And now your favourite ubuntu is back with its blazzing internet speed.
By the way, i dont like the new Unity interface in Ubuntu 11.04 and reverted it back to the classic GNOME by following these steps-
1. In your login screen while you enter your password just see below, you would observe Ubuntu written with a small arrow beside it,
2. Just click on the arrow and from the pop up list just select Ubuntu Classic .
3. Now enter your password and login and you would get your old Ubuntu look back.
Hope you will enjoy this post !!!!!
firstly go to File System and check whether the path etc/pm/power.d is present or not..
if its not present then you have to make this directory structure using mkdir
now if its present then follow the given steps-
1. Open the terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/pm/power.d/wireless
2. Enter your password. A gedit window titled wireless will pop up. Most probably it would be blank and you would see an empty document.
3. Now just add these lines to the empty document
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power off
4. Save the document and close it and close the terminal window.
5. Now simply reboot your system and you are done.
And now your favourite ubuntu is back with its blazzing internet speed.
By the way, i dont like the new Unity interface in Ubuntu 11.04 and reverted it back to the classic GNOME by following these steps-
1. In your login screen while you enter your password just see below, you would observe Ubuntu written with a small arrow beside it,
2. Just click on the arrow and from the pop up list just select Ubuntu Classic .
3. Now enter your password and login and you would get your old Ubuntu look back.
Hope you will enjoy this post !!!!!
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