I’m unable to connect to my LAN and having to hotspot off my phone which is not ideal…
In WIFI settings it shows ‘weak’ signal yet my MacBook shows full strength and has no problem connecting.
What’s the problem?
Thanks
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Hey, did you check this?
Also please tell us about your setup. Which Framework laptop configuration, which OS, which version, which drivers, configs etc.
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Hey thanks. It’s not slow when connected to my iPhone hotspot…
Oh man, I don’t know and not sure how to look it all up - brand new tech-challenged user here with a 6 month old 12th Gen with Ubuntu 22.04 just installed… still have the last part of Manual Setup to complete so perhaps it’ll come good, just figured if it was working with hotspot it should work with LAN. Still on Step 8 of this:
This topic is a bit stale, but I have a similar issue. I have a Wifi 6 (ax) setup. My framework laptop ( AMD Ryzen 7 7840U with MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter) reaches 30-100 Mbit/s, a somewhat old Thinkpad L14 (Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200) reaches 380 MBit/s in the same location.
This is running Linux 3.16.9 on NixOS unstable. Not sure this is super relevant, because this experience is pretty consistent.
Is the antenna setup on the Thinkpad just better?
Quite likely. The mediatek card is probably not helping bit I am pretty sure it’s mostly the antenna setup (and alu lid) as also with an intel card reception is worse than on other devices.
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Somehow sad if the cheap L Thinkpad from some years ago beats the framework laptop in wifi reception, but to be fair I had an expensive Dell laptop that also had pretty poor reception (also with alu lid 
).
In this case it mostly beats it because it’s cheap, plastic doesn’t get in the way of radio anywhere near as much as the “fancy” aluminum or even carbon fiber.
The fancy thinkpads tend to only have metallic skeletons which also aren’t really in the way.