I'm very naive to the ways of Ubuntu. My problem is that no matter which release i use, my wifi connection is very slow (can't stream anything, pages load slowly, etc.). However, when plugged into the router the speed is very fast/as it should be.

brandt@Brandtsys:~$ sudo lshw -c network

[sudo] password for brandt: 

  *-network               

       description: Ethernet interface

       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

       logical name: eth0

       version: 05

       serial: f0:de:f1:71:62:57

       size: 10Mbit/s

       capacity: 100Mbit/s

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s

       resources: irq:42 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff

  *-network

       description: Wireless interface

       product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

       vendor: Ralink corp.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

       logical name: wlan0

       version: 00

       serial: cc:af:78:68:28:7c

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.11.0-15-generic firmware=0.34 ip=192.168.1.67 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

       resources: irq:18 memory:f0100000-f010ffff

brandt@Brandtsys:~$

Details: OS Ubuntu 13.10
Memory 5.3 GiB
Processor AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 4
Gallium 0.4 on AMD SUMO
OS Type 64-bit
Disk 732.5 GB

I have scoured google and searches

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