RTL8188CUS extremely slow with Solus 4.1 + current updates

Local1Oa

Hi, I downloaded the latest 4.1 version for Solus Budgie from the website and after installation I made all updates via Ethernet network.

But Solus is very buggy, because the 397 packages could not be loaded, because with 339 packages the download stopped and I had to close Software Center and select less packages. It's best if the user chooses the first category, then the second and then the third.

Then the download and the installation works. Very annoying and buggy. Don't the developers test something like that before? That means that when it's been several months since the release there are a lot of updates and new users download the ISO file and install it on their computer. Because the iso file is outdated, as shown in this case in Software center and if the user selects all updates at once the process will stop at package 339 and not continue. I have tried it several times. Very buggy.

When I found a workaround and still managed to download and install all updates in Software Center.

Then I disabled the Ethernet network and connected it to my Wi-Fi network and immediately noticed that the download speed is extremely slow. Under 80 Kbit/s. Also the upload speed is very slow under 200 Kbit/s.

How can the user solve it? On Windows 7 and 8 no problems. The Wi-Fi modul is a Realthek RTL8188CUS (USB).

WetGeek

These "stoppages" happen when the server(s) in the repository get overloaded and time out. It's a better idea to do the updating from a command line, and you don't need to know a lot of commands to do that.

From a terminal, just type sudo eopkg up to upgrade everything that needs it. You can easily see what's happening because the terminal displays much more progress information than the little progress bar of the Software Center. When you notice that downloads have stopped (due to a server time-out), all you need to do is enter Ctrl+C to exit the process, and then enter eopkg up again to restart it. The package manager, eopkg, is pretty remarkable in that it will quickly advance to exactly where it was stopped -- to the exact byte -- and continue downloading.

Depending on how many people are currently downloading from the servers (which are not controlled by the Solus team) you may need to repeat those commands a time or two if you're trying to download hundreds of packages, but that's very easy to do. For most weekly updates, and with 7 computers to update, I rarely need to restart downloads even once.

Welcome to Solus!