Possibly the network manager was misreading the Wireless Adapter to begin with which didn't lead to any forced updates via the Software Updater either with or without the PPA.
Below is a direct link to the package information and driver on Launchpad: http://mcaf.ee/9qkje ----- *AS I AM NOT A DEVELOPER, I CANNOT MYSELF ADD THIS FIX TO THE UBUNTU OR DEBIAN REPOSITORIES - THIS IS WHERE I NEED HELP. I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS RAN INTO THIS ISSUE, AND IT SHOULD BE NECESSARY TO PUSH THIS OUT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.* -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409102 Title: WiFi is slower on Ubuntu than Windows. Status in Network Manager GNOME Applet: Unknown Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My wireless internet connection, no matter what dongle I use as an interface, is always slower and I have more DNS issues "unable to find website" than what I ever get on even the Windows 10 Developer Beta running on my same machine within a different hard disk. Using Ubuntu, my internet connection will often slow to a screeching halt, videos fail to stream properly from popular sites a'la Youtube or such, I get DNS issues reported by Chrome and Firefox in which my current connection cannot "find" a website although connected, and last but not least, my connection will cut in and out intermittently though I have set the MAC address of my router as the BSSID. Windows 10 does not give me these issues, and has been more stable connectivity-wise from day one of the first public beta of Windows 10. Something is terribly wrong, and I do not know what. I have tried what seems like everything to fix the problem, and I still have the same issues. If Ubuntu cannot support common wireless devices and drivers, why would the general public want to prefer Ubuntu over something more stable? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: libnm-gtk-common 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-lowlatency 3.16.7-ckt1 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Jan 9 14:34:48 2015 Dependencies: IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-08 (62 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.11 metric 9 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 1 f1c9b8fa-dda4-443c-9143-093770dd40a4 802-3-ethernet 1420688531 Wed 07 Jan 2015 10:42:11 PM EST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 KCS96 1 79387fc2-a0c8-452c-8dd3-a632947dbe73 802-11-wireless 1420831940 Fri 09 Jan 2015 02:32:20 PM EST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 HTC One Network a509d61f-6a95-438f-b66f-8fde34f8e1ed bluetooth 0 never no no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3 2C:8A:72:02:18:B5 bluetooth disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager-applet/+bug/1409102/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
