Wifi speed is significently low compare to windows os in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (RT3290 wifi wireless router)

Question

I got a new wireless router TP-LINK today. The router was working well with windows os in my laptop. But when I switched back to ubuntu 14.04 (dual boot with windows os) The speed was significantly lower. I am using Ralink rt3290 wifi router. Please help me with the problem, it's really annoying.

Please run the commands with LANG=C prefix. It will give output in English. — Pilot6, Oct 15 '15 at 16:25
I am using http://www.speedtest.net/ website to measure Internet speed — raz, Oct 15 '15 at 16:31
@ssta for ubuntu download speed 7.79 Mbps and upload speed is 2.45 Mbps for windows download speed 34.07 Mbps and upload speed is 2.15 Mbps — raz, Oct 15 '15 at 16:58
i had the same issue, tried solution from here http://www.hitxp.com/articles/software/ubuntu-fix-slow-wireless-internet-connection-speed-upgrading-11-04-natty-narwhal/
now it works as expected. — Vijayant Katyal, Jan 07 '17 at 07:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '15 at 16:42

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This is well known bug with kernel drivers for this adapter.

You can vote there that the bug affects you too.

Or report another bug, since that one is marked as invalid.

answered Oct 15 '15 at 16:42

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So what can I do now. Should I Upgrade from ubuntu 14.04 to ubuntu 15.04. will it help? – raz Oct 15 '15 at 16:51
It will not help, since there is the same driver. You can report a bug by running ubuntu-bug linux. – Pilot6 Oct 15 '15 at 16:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '15 at 22:19

I solved the problem by installing driver for Ralink rt3290. I followed this procedure.

Download driver from here.
Install dkms by sudo apt-get install dkms
Extract the rt3290sta-2.6.0.0 directory into /usr/src.
Run sudo dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0 --force.
Reboot.

I follow this SOURCE.

Wifi speed is significently low compare to windows os in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (RT3290 wifi wireless router)

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