Ubuntu 24.04 drops many UDP broadcast packets over Wi-Fi; Windows 11 doesn’t

I’m receiving high-rate UDP broadcasts (MQTT-over-UDP frames) sent to 255.255.255.255.

On the same ThinkPad and the same Wi-Fi network: Windows 11 (dual-boot): ~5% packet loss

Ubuntu 24.04: significant loss under the same traffic Interface: wlp0s20f3 driver: iwlwifi kernel: 6.14.0-29-generic firmware: 89.1a492d28.0 (so-a0-gf-a0-89.uc)

Hardware and RF environment are identical; only the OS changes. What Linux-side tuning should I look at to reduce drops for frequent small UDP broadcast packets? I’m particularly interested in relevant kernel, sysctl, and socket options/settings

Any Linux-specific guidance to reach Windows-like reliability for this workload would be appreciated.

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