Debian 12 with BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter is really slow!

Hello friends

For a laptop HP Pavilion g4-1387la was installed Debian 12 Desktop

The ethernet and wifi connections are possible.

But when only the WIFI is used (no ethernet cable connected) exists the problem that the internet speed is very slow. I put the same WIFI connection settings according with other laptops in the same LAN, all of them based with other Linux distributions. Of course the ipv4 is unique

The wireless card is as follows (let me know if you need more data - pls indicate me the command execute to share the info):

lspci -vq | grep -i wireless
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter

I had a similar problem about a WIFI connection through PeppermintOS based on Debian according with:

As follows the main figure to have a better understanding:

Observe the installation of the 2 following packages (among others):

  • firmware-b43-installer
  • firmware-b43legacy-installer

Now, for Debian exists the following set of packages:

After to have installed the firmware-b43-installer and firmware-b43legacy-installer packages and more as shown in the previous Figure, in the same machine when the ping command is executed to other PC in the same LAN it is fast as if the same command was executed in other PC in the same LAN but sadly when is opened any Web Browser, it can work fast only for few seconds but randomly goes slow. It is very strange.

How to solve this situation?

Just in case, in the figure shown about Debian was used Ethernet and the WIFI is disable by airplane mode

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I think I would be looking at Wifi interference.
What happens if you move the laptop closer to the wireless router?

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