Any hope for good speed on the RZ717?

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Just went from the FW 13 12th gen with an Intel BE200 to a FW 13 Ryzen AI 300 series (and therefore the included RZ717). I also went from 2.4 Gbit/s download speed to about 50 Mbit/s, in the same exact location, with the same wifi 7 AP :sweat_smile:

Before I try to switch to a Qualcomm QCNCM865, is there any hope for a firmware upate to fix the issue for me, or is it a lost cause?

I think it would have been great to make the wifi chipset optional if it’s gonna be bad anyway.

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I’ve ended up buying an intel card because I had issues with an AP switching between bands and causing small disconnect.

Anyway for the speed issues with the RZ717 I did solve it using reg domain in the nixos configuration. From my understanding the card could not use some frequencies/bands advertised by my router without it and defaulted to one with a slow speed.

This is what I used but I’m no nixos or linux network expert (Adjust to your country/regdom):

  hardware.wirelessRegulatoryDatabase = true;
  networking.wireless.extraConfig = ''
    country=FR
  '';
  boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
    options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom="FR"
  '';