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I have a 1Gbps connection and for some reason the download speed is very slow on Ubuntu 20.04 (using a wired connection not wifi). I tested several times using speedtest.net and got very different results on 2 different distros.

Ubuntu 20.04 speedtest results

Download speed  |  Upload speed
72 Mbps            450 Mbps

I tested using Pop!_OS distro live CD and the results were totally different

Download speed  |  Upload speed
996 Mbps           444 Mbps

What could be the problem?

Martin Zeltin
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Thanks to @FedonKadifeli I was able to fix the problem, this seems to be a known bug. The solution was to pass a kernel parameter to grub.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-5.10/+bug/1930754

The trick is to set the boot kernel parameter "pcie_aspm=off" in '/etc/default/grub'

Like this:


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash pcie_aspm=off"


After that run;


update-grub


pcie_aspm is some sort of power management thingie which probably puts my networkcontroller to sleep or something.
Martin Zeltin
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  • This is exactly my issue, Martin. I applied this answer and still no changes at all. My internet connection is still way lower than expected just like for OP. – ThN Nov 10 '22 at 02:57