Hello to everyone,and thanks for your time!
I am a Kali and Minth user on daily bases,so when my mothers elderly 10-ish years old,Samsung laptop started to freeze i thought it would be a great idea to relieve the hardware with a light OS,and here we are.
Zorin works great,response as expected,no issues at all except the WiFi speed,which is about a fifth of the real bandwidth at download,but strange enough,the upload is at full.
The specs are as follows:
-CPU AMD E2-1800/memory 6GB/HDD 500GB/GPU Radeon HD 7340
So what have i done so far in the last few days,except fresh install the OS?
-tried to convince my mother to buy a new laptop,that didn't work
-done update and upgrade
-disabled bluetooth,avoided any use of VPN
-WIFI power management directly disabled (value 2)
-fiddled with Firefox,not much improvement
-installed Brave browser,slightly better
-emulated a VM Zorin on my Mac,WIFI was acceptable
-also installed OS on a separate partition (third device) works just fine
-connected directly thru UTP,no improvement
-the plan is fiber optics unlimited 200/20mbps
-tried on some different networks,same issue.
Below i will share the lshw and lspci data,so knock yourself out,and hopefully together we will find some solution,because i am running out of ideas...
lshw
@katamama:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for katamama:
root@katamama:/home/katamama# lshw -c network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: enp2s0
version: 09
serial: 20:89:84:17:b1:95
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-75-generic firmware=rtl8168f-1_0.0.5 06/18/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:16 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0
version: 01
serial: 50:b7:c3:ea:87:27
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=5.15.0-75-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.22 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:fea00000-fea7ffff memory:fea80000-fea8ffff
root@katamama:/home/katamama#
lspci
katamama@katamama:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for katamama:
root@/home/katamama# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 7340]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio
00:10.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 09)
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
root@katamama:/home/katamama#
The vast majority of the time, if your Upload speed is normal, but down speed is slow - you need to check your router. If there is any block or interference between the computer and the router or the Router Bandwidth Channel may need to be changed.
I think based on your use-case, Linux Mint Xfce or MATE would have been a good way to go. You get automatic updates and the newer Xfce desktop 4.18 or MATE's recent desktop. Plus Mint sort of has the same paradigm/flow for the most part on all 3 desktops (Cinnamon, MATE, & Xfce). I use Zorin Core about 40% of the time with Mint Cinnamon and LMDE 5 too about 40% with Windows 11 and Tuxedo OS the remaining 20% of the time. Despite like using Zorin a bit more, I think Mint is just a bit better in some areas with regard to their upgrade tool and automatic updates as part of their system. Plus, Mint has found drivers for me in the past with a minimum of fuss. All I am trying to say is although Zorin Core is better for me, their Xfce Lite version I think is not as well done compared to Mint's Xfce which is delightful to use. Good luck!
The latest Mint XFCE is version 4.16.
I didn't want to go long and wide in my description,but ofcourse i checked the router,reseted it,accesed it to check if there is some rogue parameter ...
I downloaded Mate,and will give it a go,so i will check back with the results.
Nope,same thing. All went by the book,no hiccups but the issue is persistent in Mint too.
I already started browsing for a red Samsung laptop,because i am out of ideas.
Will try,but i am not expecting a lot of a ten years old laptop.
But - the newest update will have 4.18 which is in Beta now.
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