How can I allow my computer to use more bandwidth?

Question

So I've been trying many things to make get my computer (Ubuntu 16.04) to use more bandwidth. When I go into my WiFi connection information I can see the speed is 144Mb/s but when downloading something weather it is on my browser or applications like steam it only uses 250Kb/s instead.

I've tried to do many solutions such as many of the solutions found here https://itsfoss.com/speed-up-slow-wifi-connection-ubuntu/ and here, but I have had no luck. (there are a couple I didn't try mostly because they are for older than 11.04)

I have done a speed test and these are my results: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9120633370.png (I would be pretty happy if I at least got that on my downloads!)

I hope you all can help me 'cause I'm tired of slow downloads. Thank you! :)

To: Nmath The main problem is that my computer is only using 250Kb/s rather than the speed tests given 838Kb/s or my "speed" in the connection information.

To: Melebius (thanks) many other systems such as my PS4 will get 2Mb/s and it is right under my PC. It is some distance from the access point I used one of the links you used and got a connection strength of 62 with 54 Mbits/s.

What I found: my WiFi adapter is not supported by Ubuntu Im using a Tp-link T6E, although it works it is slow as it is not supported :( (I don't know how to close this, and I'd rather not solve it so yeah, and I would like to save this for others using a Archer T6E thinking why it is bad.)

Answer 1

although it works it is slow as it is not supported

That is a contradiction: it either works and is supported or it does not work and is not supported. Working and not supported is not possible. TP-Link Archer T6E uses a Broadcom chip.

You need the Broadcom proprietary driver (bcmwl). Those are likely on the ISO in the /pool directory. Enable the CD-rom repository in Software Sources, and in a terminal session do ...

sudo apt update
sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source

That will install the kernel modules needed to start using it.

In case you can connect to the internet wired, USB tethering, or a hotspot you can also do:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

Before you start with this 1st check the common commands related to wireless and see if the commands identify your card and if a driver is active. You might have the wrong driver installed. There is a script called wireless-info that gathers all the data you need. Also install

sudo apt install pastebinit

That enables the script to make you a forum optimized paste that you can use to post on ubuntuforums so someone else can analyse it.

But again: a wireless either works or it does not work. And when it works it is supported. Anything related to speed is more likely to be related to settings: for instance the channel can be important. You can set that at your router.