Good morning!
After some frustration with my Lenovo X390, and then life getting in the way I parked my FreeBSD activities. Anyway, I am now back with FreeBSD on a Lenovo X270. Everything works well, with one exception: Wifi speed. The wifi card is an Intel 8260 card, and when I installed FreeBSD, I set it up with the iwm driver. This gives me download speeds of about 20Mbps, and upload speeds of about 10Mbps. On the X390, I had similar speeds, but when I reinstated the linux nvme drive in that laptop, the download speeds are 300Mbps, and upload 50Mbps - this is the line speed to/from the house!
Since there has been much talk about improving the wifi speeds in FreeBSD, my thoughts were that I hadn't got the wifi configured correctly. Further investigation seemed to back this up - ff my understanding is correct, development of the wifi drivers for intel cards is being done with the iwlwifi drivers, not iwm. Following the wiki, I have switched over to the iwlwifi drivers, but if anything the speeds are worse.
This is my /boot/loader.conf:
Do any of you have tips as to what I can do to improve the wifi speed?
Longer term I intend to switch the X390 over to FreeBSD, but I want to use the X270 to iron out all my configuration issues first!
Thanks for reading/commenting
After some frustration with my Lenovo X390, and then life getting in the way I parked my FreeBSD activities. Anyway, I am now back with FreeBSD on a Lenovo X270. Everything works well, with one exception: Wifi speed. The wifi card is an Intel 8260 card, and when I installed FreeBSD, I set it up with the iwm driver. This gives me download speeds of about 20Mbps, and upload speeds of about 10Mbps. On the X390, I had similar speeds, but when I reinstated the linux nvme drive in that laptop, the download speeds are 300Mbps, and upload 50Mbps - this is the line speed to/from the house!
Since there has been much talk about improving the wifi speeds in FreeBSD, my thoughts were that I hadn't got the wifi configured correctly. Further investigation seemed to back this up - ff my understanding is correct, development of the wifi drivers for intel cards is being done with the iwlwifi drivers, not iwm. Following the wiki, I have switched over to the iwlwifi drivers, but if anything the speeds are worse.
This is my /boot/loader.conf:
...and this is my rc.conf:
I am using 15.0-RELEASE-p5, and everything is up to date.
Do any of you have tips as to what I can do to improve the wifi speed?
Longer term I intend to switch the X390 over to FreeBSD, but I want to use the X270 to iron out all my configuration issues first!
Thanks for reading/commenting