Ok, installed http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/trusty- desktop-amd64.iso onto a USB drive, booted and was able to get up to 3MB/s performing the same smb transfer to my media box as the original post.
Impirically slower than 3.11.0-12, but seemed stable enough. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270208 Title: 8086:422b [Dell Latitude E6520] linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic appears to regress connection speed for iwlwifi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1270208/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs