Wifi speeds are horrid on my usb wifi adapter after a year of no problems

[tbg]

@Yukina

its pluged in directly to the mother board in the fasted usb port i have

Many USB 3 wifi adapters actually perform better on a USB 2 port, so be sure to test out a a USB 2 port at the rear of your computer. A short USB extension cable is usually required if utilizing one of the rear ports on your computer.

It would also be worth testing to see if disabling WiFi power saving helps improve your speeds.

Also test disabling MAC address randomization.

You could also test the linux-firmware-git package out. Be sure to reboot after making any change to the firmware.

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Edit:

Be sure to read this post on how to test older firmware versions:

Intel AX201 Wi-Fi stops working intermittently on LTS kernel Garuda

If you haven’t already tried it, then test disabling MAC address randomization. Another thing you can try is downgrading your firmware if your wifi was working on Garuda or another Arch based distro in the past. As this is a new install @mak-bacc, you will have no older firmware versions stored in your package cache to test downgrading with. However, you can still test older firmware versions by following the method below. How to downgrade the linux-firmware from the Arch Archive: Often…