Slow wifi issue on 2.4GHz Hotspot wifi in newer versions

[danishgec]

For the last 2 months I have been constantly trying to use Linux for my daily work on my personal Laptop (HP Probook 4430s 2011 model) and I first installed Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Edition. The major issue I came across with it was that when I connected to Internet via Wifi Hotspot of my mobile phone, the speed was really slow (~10kbps) whereas no such issue ever came in Windows 10. I searched around the forums and found that Wifi 2.4 GHz frequency is not gettting good speeds in linux whereas 5 GHZ Wifi worked fine. Also there was a noticable lag in internet and sometimes the WiFi speeds would drop to zero all of a sudden. I tried everything that forums offered but it didn't work. I tried all of the major distros- Debian, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, PuppyLinux, ZorinOS but issue remained the same - 2.4GHZ wifi speed was very slow.
Workaround
I remembered I had once tried Linux mint in 2020 and internet had worked fine the. So I installed the old version Linux mint 19.2 Tina which is currently unsupported and to my surprise the Wifi works seamlessly and very fast, rather faster than Windows 10.

I am guessing this is the issue with newer kernel or my wifi driver is not supported in newer versions. But I really want this issue to be sorted out so that I can use newer versions of Linux Mint.

[spamegg]

Hello danishgec welcome to the Forum.
Please share your system info by going to:
Menu/System Reports/System Information/click "Copy"
and pasting it here.
(You can use the command inxi -Fxxxmprz on the Terminal.)

[MiZoG]

Yeah, you described thoroughly your case but you missed the vital part of posting your system specs.

[danishgec]

Output of inxi -Fxxmprz

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Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 4430s v: A0001D02
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 167E v: KBC Version 22.26
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68SRR Ver. F.63
    date: 04/06/2017
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 23.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 23.7/23.7 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter>
    status: full
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.75 GiB used: 1.66 GiB (44.4%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-2410M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 800 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 798 2: 800
    3: 798 4: 798 bogomips: 18359
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 ports:
    active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0116
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP HD Webcam [Fixed] type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.4:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:2805
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x0385 res: 1366x768 dpi: 112
    diag: 355mm (14")
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB
    GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1c20
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-18-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT3592 Wireless 802.11abgn 2T/2R PCIe
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 24:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:3592
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 25:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp37s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 494.41 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS725050A9A364 size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade
    size: 28.65 GiB serial: <filter>
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2612
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
    2: deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
    3: deb [trusted=yes] file:/run/live/medium bookworm main non-free-firmware
Info:
  Processes: 219 Uptime: 3m Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5)
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.26

[djph]

Ouch, Ralink cards are ... special ... at the best of times (and that's before we consider HP anti-consumer shenanigans). Best bet would be a cheapo USB adapter to just avoid the Ralink/HP mess.

[danishgec]

That's really disappointing to hear. Thanks anyway.