I’ve been using Bazzite for a couple of months now. I’ve been experiencing a few problems when connecting my PC to my Wifi router.
I’ve been noticing a few websites being extremely slow, such as reddit. I’ve also noticed that Flatpak downloads are extremely slow, with speeds being in two digits of…kb/s! Now, I can mitigate this issue by doing either two things:
- Using a VPN
- Connecting my PC to my mobile hotspot, which is connected to my same router.
This is puzzling, because if there’s an issue with my ISP, it would show up on my phone as well. If there’s an issue with my built in WiFi adapter, then it would show up when connecting to my hotspot.
I have absolutely no idea what’s going on, could someone help me? I tried changing DNS servers, reseting the network configs, flushing DNS cache, non of these seem to mitigate the issue.
One thing I’ve yet to try is connecting via Ethernet, because as of right now I don’t have a good Ethernet cable with the right length, and I’m gonna order one day and try it.
If anyone has any other suggestions, I would appreciate it
In #1, are you connecting to the VPN from the PC or from the router?
From PC
Definitely weird. WiFi connections are poor, but VPN connection over the same WiFi link is good.
That makes me think perhaps DNS like others have said, or it could be something with your local routing table trying to reach something that’s not reachable. I would probably check the routing table first for anything weird. Like, you might have a static route applied from DHCP, but it’s ignored by your phone OS.
Since you can reproduce it in the browser I would probably look next at browser dev tools (F12). Go to the network tab. Then reproduce the problem. Once the task properly finishes, hit pause and sort by duration. You can also right click the headers and add a Timings>Latency column. See if there’s anything interesting.
Like, are the slow steps hitting a new domain name? Is there a slow POST among faster GETs? Is a step repeating after a timeout?
If nothing’s obvious there I would be tempted to repeat but lower level with wireshark to get the whole network picture. Get a good capture of the problem with a general sense of the timing of the problem pauses (in seconds from the start of capture). Find them in the cap and see what’s what. Compare good vs bad if no clear trends present themselves.
Thank you for the suggestion. I actually figured out a simple solution, I changed my router from router mode to access point mode, and then connected the ethernet cable to lan port instead of the wan port, and that fixed everything.