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Just got my Asus Chromebox, and installed Ubuntu/Kodi dual-boot. Relatively painless, except...

1) My wifi link seems slow. On first boot after the script updated my firmware, I couldn't connect to my wifi network at all for about 10min - kept getting the "out of range" error in chromeos. After I managed to connect & finish installing ubuntu, my link speed (as given by iwconfig) never seems to get above ~120Mbps (802.11n), or ~300Mbps (802.11ac). By comparison, my ancient laptop, sitting at the same location, gets a 200-450Mbps 802.11n link. Before flashing back to the stock firmware to see if it's any better, I thought I'd post here.

when running a dual boot setup, you're running the stock firmware, just with a fixed/modified legacy boot payload. This has absolutely no effect on networking, wired or wifi, under ChromeOS or any other OS. Any issues you are having with wifi are due to something else - your router, RF environment, wifi card hardware/firmware/drivers, etc. Also, unless Asus changed components, the included Atheros wifi/BT module is dual-band (2.4/5GHz) abgn, not ac. Also, the reported link speed and actual transfer speed are loosely correlated at best.

I can confirm. My HP (I think they're using the same wifi card, no?) connects at a stable 300mbs *link* speed, which is the maximum (only 2x2 mimo) I think only the Dell has AC wifi, which would top out at 866mbs or so.