So, I looked through the forums for an answer and somebody suggested updating the kernel. The kernel that came with the installer was 3.13.0.24. I download and installed kernel 3.13.0.27. That fixed the wireless problem! It booted up and found and connected to my network. But then I did a speedtest and saw it was running slower then when it was wired to the router. Off the Ethernet I was getting download speeds up to 20Mb/s, and on the wireless it was only getting around 10Mb/s. And on top of the slower speeds it was also causing high usage spikes on the CPU. I opened up System Monitor and it was showing one of the cores at a constant 75-80% usage. As soon as I turned off my wireless using FN+F12, the usage on the CPU core would go down to normal ranges. I'll include screen shots. These high spikes weren't there when the Ethernet was connected.
So, I guess what I'm asking is why my wireless is causing these high CPU spikes and slower internet speeds? Any help would be a appreciated. I'm almost 100% sure it's driver related but I wouldn't know where to begin to try and fix it. Everything is working fine in windows 7.
My laptop is a Toshiba satellite C55-A5245
core i3
8gb ram
window 7 64bit (the version of Mint Cinnamon I installed is also the 64bit version)
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With WiFi enabled, the spikes would alternate between CPU2 and CPU4 but always stay around ~75%.
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With WiFI turned off and Ethernet connected. Spikes are gone.
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WiFi speeds
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Ethernet speeds
I ran the MintWifi command and this was the result I got while connected with Wifi...
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 10ec:8179 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"MY Network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 84:1B:5E:E3:16:8A
Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-38 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:8c:fa:a6:af:96
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11155 (11.1 KB) TX bytes:11155 (11.1 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:f0:2f:ec:9a:e2
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::42f0:2fff:feec:9ae2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2177 (2.1 KB) TX bytes:18436 (18.4 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.101
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.102
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.98
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.96
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.100
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.110
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.97
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.99