Ok this is interesting indeed. this solved the problem for me too :D. thank you!
For anyone who has this problem you can do the following commands to change your bit rate from 54Mb/s to 11Mb/s tell it that you want a manual bitrate instead of auto: sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate fixed specify your bitrate: sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M restart the device: sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo ifconfig wlan0 up check if it worked: iwconfig you should now see that it shows "Bit Rate: 11Mb/s" -- [Hardy] rt73 card makes computer choppy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240695 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