Diminished Signal Strength in Ubuntu

[Nod]

For some reason the same wifi connection that I average between fifty and sixty percent signal strength in Windows only gets sixteen percent in Ubuntu. Any theories on why?

Go ahead and tell me what important information I'm leaving out so I can provide that. I'm sure I'm leaving out something.

[trevelyn]

I have seen ubuntu automatically set the bit rate to the lowest value by default.

type:

iwconfig <adaptername>

e.g. ath0, eth1, rausb0, wlan0..

This should tell you your Bit Rate, make sure it's right.

you can change it if it is low, say you want 11Mbps or 54Mbps, do:

iwconfig <adaptername> rate 11M

or something like that.