The original post: /r/debian by /u/SocketTech on 2024-12-22 12:32:12.

I have a Dell Latitude E5430, one of those old Dell laptops, but it’s pretty good and matches my needs. Basically, whenever I install debian on it, I experience extremely low network speed(wifi), but my network speed’s perfectly fine on windows.

I get 2-3 MBPS network speed normally, but on debian I am hardly able to get 50 kbps of network speed. I doubt it’s smth with my network drivers but I have no idea how do I fix it. I’ve tried a lot of distros, and I get perfectly fine network speeds on those, lets take Ubuntu a debian-based distro. My network speeds on Ubuntu is perfectly fine, but It’s opposite for Debian. When I am installing debian, It asks me to select my mirror, I select India because I live in India and then for the achieve mirror I choose deb.debian.org but the network speeds are so slow you can’t imagine it. I can’t even install the base system including the DE.

Please help me fix, this problem as I really wanna use debian. Any help will be appreciated.