I'm an Ubuntu rookie with an unresolved wireless internet connection issue. I've spent a lot of time fiddling around in my never-ending quest to get my connection working properly, but my inexperience is beginning to show and I need a little extra help.
The issue in brief: slow speed (Ookla clocks in at ~5-8Mbps download speed - it should be ~20) and connection dropouts occur every ten minutes.
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic
I've done some homework and tried a lot of solutions from these forums. I think ultimately the problem is going to be with the driver rtl8192ce. I've tried changing it to rtl8188ce using FreedomBen's tutorial, but I can't fathom how to use script for the automatic installation (I have problems with manual installation too, but I don't want to ask two questions in one post, so I'll save them for later). Can anyone help me out? I think I have the .zip downloaded if that's important.
I've included outputs to various Terminal commands below that may also prove helpful.
lshw
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: bc:ee:7b:e4:e8:22
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192ce driverversion=3.13.0-32-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.41 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
lsmod | grep rtl
rtl8192ce 52806 0
rtl_pci 26314 1 rtl8192ce
rtlwifi 52835 2 rtl_pci,rtl8192ce
rtl8192c_common 47340 1 rtl8192ce
mac80211 546051 3 rtl_pci,rtlwifi,rtl8192ce
cfg80211 409394 2 mac80211,rtlwifi
iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"virginmedia0147357"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: A0:21:B7:D6:9B:E2
Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-64 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lspci
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
Sorry if I've missed something obvious, I'm green as grass but, as you can see, willing to suffer a lot of hassle to avoid returning to Windows.