How can I force NetworkManager to set the rate? It picks the lowest every time

[saqer]

According to lspci, I have a Broadcom chipset bcm4306 (rev 02) for which b43-legacy drivers are loaded.

My problem goes back to Fedora 8 times when a certain kernel update made my wireless not work at it's full speed of 11M (it actually do 54Mbps but with bcm drivers only 11M is the max)

Even I have a fresh F9 install and set up NetworkManager, iwconfig always reports rate of 1Mb/s. With bandwidth meters out there, I actually have sometimes close to 2Mb/s but mostly 1.5Mb/s.

When I do "iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M", and restart NetworkManager, iwconfig would start reporting 11M but I actually have the same speeds as before.

With windows on the same computer, I get over 5Mb/s (my network is 8Mb/s peak), so I know it is not the hardware.

I tried to see if I can configure the rate in NetworkManager, but had no clue where I could feed this info to it. I tried to look everywhere I could think of. I searched online but got no cure. How can we configure NetworkManager?

[marcrblevins]

Look at:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=925225&postcount=11

[hyperspace]

Have you tried setting it to Auto in Network Manager?

[saqer]

Look at:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=925225&postcount=11

As I said in my OP, when I follow those instructions, iwconfig reports 11M but my speed does not actually change to that. Also, the problem with this instruction is that you have to do it after every reboot.

I wanted to save this setting permanently with NetworkManager is there a way to do that because I do not see any entry in the GUI that offer this.

[saqer]

Have you tried setting it to Auto in Network Manager?
I do not see this option in NetworkManager. do you mean system-config-network?

[hyperspace]

I do not see this option in NetworkManager. do you mean system-config-network?My bad. You are correct. In there...