Re: Wireless Network Connection Unstable
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an ASUS laptop with Intel Wireless-N module (iwlwifi driver). I'm
> using Gnome network manager for networking. I'm experiencing following
> issue with wireless internet connection and would like to know if any one
> had faced same issues.
>
> The internet connection loses sometime several times per day of use but I
> can see the wireless connection is active. To recover from this I usually
> turn OFF and ON the wireless connection from the gnome network manager.
> Then there are occasions when this step will not restore the internet
> connection. Then I have to unload and load the wireless module manually by
> doing,
> modprobe -r iwlwifi ; modprobe iwlwifi
> I don't think this is not addressing to root of the problem, I'm doing it
> just to reset what ever the issue with wireless connection and restore the
> internet connection.
>
> I appreciate if anyone can give me information to debug this issue or to
> fix the problem. I can provide more information on request.
>
> I recently switched to Debian distribution after using Ubuntu and I
> remember I had the same issue while using Ubuntu too.
>
Hello,
A while ago I had a similar issue (wifi connection drop from time to
time) and it turned out to be poor support to 802.11N standard. You
could try to use b or g standards and see if the issue remains.
--
André N. Batista
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