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I've a PC with an Intel Wireless 8260 running Debian Unstable. networking.service slows the startup (with systemd) down with 1 minute and ~5 seconds. I'm running version 4.8.15-2 of the Linux kernel with version 20161130-2 of the iwlwifi firmware. After my system has finally started up, the internet is slow and I've to run sudo iw dev wlan set power_save off to make the speed acceptable, but still not the full speed I get on my cheap Windows laptop. The output of sudo dmesg | grep iwl is:

[    4.668210] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    4.681311] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode (-2)
[    4.681313] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode failed with error -2
[    4.681326] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode (-2)
[    4.681327] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode failed with error -2
[    4.695991] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode
[    4.696663] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.361476.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[    4.732100] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8260, REV=0x208
[    4.734471] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[    4.735424] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[    4.897671] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-mvm-rs'
[   66.833134] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   66.833550] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   66.972299] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   66.972727] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled

The output of sudo iwconfig wlan0 is:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"VFNL-DE1BA0"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: 00:1D:AA:DE:1B:A0   
          Bit Rate=270 Mb/s   Tx-Power=22 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-59 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:23   Missed beacon:0

How can I make my system startup fast and get the full speed of my internet?

wb9688
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  • This could be related to the following bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190831 See also https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51271 – jsbach Feb 15 '17 at 12:47

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There was a bug report filed against Ubuntu a few years back that said 

echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
Would help regain the performance by enabling aggressive tx You will need to reboot or unload and load iwlwifi to see the change
Jeremy31
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