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Hi Mike, my english also not from the top of championship mountain ;D

oh yes, i have tried yesterday, on winxp sp3. And yes, official drivers WG111v3 Version 1.5.0 from Netgear website,
was working. I used windows wireless manager for connecting. And in the same 15m distance signal was good,
and no packet loss while pinging to router.
So now it is clear, that there is nothing bad with router or usb adapter circuits  itself.
All thing is with driver or some settings in ubuntu (or kernel).

Than i found out that there was WG111v3 Version 2.0.0 for windows. Tried
and this. Wireless application, that was included with driver ver.2 ,
failed connect to wireless network. It automatically chose WEP
encryptions, but the password was not working no with 64bit neither 128
bit passphrase. Result was a message that connection is not working or
limited or something like that - in another words: adapter can not
obtain information from dhcp and set some default,not working, TCP/IP
values . But if i use windows wireless manager then adapter connects to
router and obtains dhcp values for TCP/IP.

Than i decided to go with ndiswrapper on ubuntu, and test windows drivers. First impression was that it looks promising: driver installed, device recognized...and nothing more. It was not working. Then i tried few other drivers, but result was the same.
 Result  in dmesg was : can not load drivers or something like that. I tried i386 and amd64. no luck. 
So i think that maybe 
there is some additional stuff in driver installation for windows, that helps adapter to function correctly.

Christopher M. Penalver (penalvch) where do you think is better to opening
 up the new report or bug  (launchpad, bugzilla) and what kernel to use for the report?

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Title:
  Realtek rtl8187b wireless chipset slow speed

Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi, I have ubuntu 11.04, all updates, wifi chipset rtl8187B, kernel 2.6.38-10, and 14mbit/s internet connection. 
  When I try to download something, for example from torrents, I see ping up (up to 500-800ms), slow speed (<1mbit/s) and packets lost.
  In windows its works fine, ping didnt up, download speed 14mbit/s. 
  So if I want to download something, I need to reboot from ubuntu to windows, or wait for download at low speed in ubuntu. And it's not good=(
  Thanks, and sorry my bad english.

  laptop:~$ uname -a
  Linux mike-laptop 2.6.38-10-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 2 21:32:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  laptop:~$ modprobe --show-depends rtl8187
  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93cx6.ko
  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/updates/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko

  laptop:~$ sudo lsusb -d 0bda:8187
  Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: linux-image-2.6.38-10-generic 2.6.38-10.44
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  mike       2412 F.... pulseaudio
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfcb00000 irq 43'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC269'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0269,144dc06a,00100004'
     Controls      : 13
     Simple ctrls  : 8
  Card1.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xddefc000 irq 16'
     Mixer name	: 'Nvidia GPU 0b HDMI/DP'
     Components	: 'HDA:10de000b,10de0101,00100100'
     Controls      : 16
     Simple ctrls  : 4
  Date: Tue Jun 28 13:24:48 2011
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=339679fe-6015-48a0-b9f5-9bdecde05562
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110405)
  MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. R530/R730/P530
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-10-generic root=UUID=eae27d1a-6cca-45bb-8c38-d8cdd238b079 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1377x768-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap vt.handoff=7
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-10-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-10-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                             1.52.1
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-04 (54 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/21/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
  dmi.bios.version: 04KQ.M007.20100621.KSJ
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
  dmi.board.name: R530/R730/P530
  dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 9
  dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvr04KQ.M007.20100621.KSJ:bd06/21/2010:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnR530/R730/P530:pvrNotApplicable:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnR530/R730/P530:rvrNotApplicable:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct9:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: R530/R730/P530
  dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

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