Bandwidth Slower than iMac

[ahimta]

I have tried this driver with a Linksys WUSB6400M USB WiFi adapter on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it works.

Unfortunately, I have to do some of the instructions after each boot but I will add something on start-up so this shouldn't be a big deal.

The speed I had was about 50-60Mbps (according to speedtest.net/run) but I have an iMac next to me that can clock up to 100Mbps and I was wondering if the driver is only operating on 2.4Ghz and the iMac on 5Ghz, if it is related to 802.11ac, or maybe the USB3 issue.

I even put the case of the PC in the exact same place the iMac was in but still got the same results.

I will try to use the adapter on the iMac later and see if I get different results:sweat_smile:.

And as an aside why there doesn't seem to be an official Linux driver for this? I understand that Linux can have some issues with some new hardware but this adapter has been out for more than two years and the RTL8822BU had to have been out for even more (if I understand time correctly):sweat_smile:.

I also noticed that some people talk about its stopping to work after some kernel version (4.14 I think).

And finally, why doesn't this project try to get this working on the Linux kernel? It can take a lot of work, of course but even if it's 10x the work it will be more than 100x the benefit:smiley:.