I can confirm this behavior on the Dell Mini 10v (Dell Inspiron 1011). Speeds are roughly 30 Mbits/s through iperf when plugged into power but drop to approximately 3 Mbits/s when running on battery power.
lspci reveals my wireless card to be: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) I can verify that David Guest's suggestion of using sudo iwconfig eth1 power off works to bring wireless networking back up to expected speeds. -- Regression in wireless performance under Maverick when on battery power (broadcom) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs