Comment 24 for bug 293946

I also had these problems with weak signal and bad performance with my RTL8187 usb stick under Jaunty.

iwconfig also only showed 1Mb/s, even when I manually changed it to something else.

On my DSL router I had WPA2 enabled (not both WPA & WPA2). But Wicd could only do this combo (not sure at the moment about network manager, but with network manager I had the same problem). So I installed this addon from the site www.elektronenblitz63.de (its German only unfortunately) which adds the options for just WPA or just WPA2 under Wicd. Using that, all of a sudden my link speed is up at 54Mb/s and signal quality is up as well.

Hopefully this info is usefull.