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Wifi low dbm on Linux & Windows, but not driver or adapter
The reported symptom indicates a problem with the hardware but not with the WiFi card itself, the replacement showed the same low signal problem.
It points out to incorrectly connected antennae ...
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Understanding the output of the 'iw reg get' command
Interesting question, and I didn't know the answer, so here is how I found out:
The source code for 3.17 shows where the data comes from. In particular,
The first group (5250 - 5330 @ 80) is the ...
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Use drivers from windows to linux
The tool for getting Windows network drivers to work in Linux is called NdisWrapper (wiki, downloads). NDIS (Network Device Interface Specification) is the Windows network driver API; NdisWrapper is a ...
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How to get D-Link DWA-182 Rev. D1 running under Linux
D-Link provides a driver compatible with Linux 4.9 and older on its website:
https://support.dlink.com/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DWA-182
There one can download the driver for Rev. D. In the archive there ...
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Network speed issue - Phone achieves much faster speeds than my laptop on the same network
It appears the iPhone 8 supports the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard (https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_8-8573.php) which has a theoretical maximum throughput about 3 times that of 802.11n which your ...
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How to force Windows 7 to disable driver signature enforcement?
There are a couple of ways to do that:
Import certificates prior to install
Follow these steps:
install the software once manually by confirming that the unsigned drivers shall be used
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How to fight network latency and jitter issues on Wifi?
The root cause of jitter and latency on a WIFI network is a combination of available bandwidth, number of people using the connection and interference - thus to improve latency you need to improve ...
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What is the `802.11n Mode` setting in wireless driver for?
Dual-band Routers that are listed as 802.11ac, can be assumed to be fully backwards compatible with 802.11 a/b/g/n.
That card supports wireless-n only over 2.4ghz. to get the advertised speeds for ...
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Wifi interface works but shows Ethernet Link type
That's normal. By default, Wi-Fi is meant to provide an Ethernet-compatible (well, 802.3-compatible) MAC layer. From IEEE 802.11-2016 (free through IEEE GET):
4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® ...
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Blue screen after disk cloning to another HP 840 G2 laptop
Even though they are the same model, the manufacturer can still use different wireless network cards in a laptop. This is based on availability and cost at the time of building. Check out the HP ...
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wifi driver missing after installing windows 8.1
Do a right-click on the Windows-Button and select Device Manager.
Under Device Management you should see your Wifi-Device with a yellow exclamation mark. Do a right-click > Properties > Details and ...
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Why I can´t change the wifi card
This is a BIOS/UEFI issue... HP, like many other mainstream manufacturers, use locks in the BIOS to prevent the use of unapproved or unauthorized hardware in their laptops, typically about WiFi, ...
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Linux Mint 17.3 wifi keeps disconnecting
Most likely, the answer lies in following in detail (I'll explain in a second) the instructions in this Askubuntu reply. Let me remark that:
The proprietary driver, wl is of considerably lower ...
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Windows 10 laptop doesn't connect to internet via wifi
Means I can connect to the wifi but computer can't reach the internet.
This looks like the adapter can't resolve Internet addresses. I would recommend you to open a command line window (Win+R -> cmd)...
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Unwanted automatically changed MAC address almost every boot
Try disabling Settings->Network & Internet->WiFi->"Random hardware addresses" and see if that fixes it.
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WiFi noise measurement
I posit you are just not using the correct software - it would seem very strange for any WIFI chip to not be able to tell you the signal level. (On my Ubuntu box) I just typed :
iwlist wlan0 ...
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How to get D-Link DWA-182 Rev. D1 running under Linux
This hardware uses a RTL8812BU chipset, according to: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-182_rev_D1
For this chipset, try the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git
git clone ...
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How can I bring back disappeared or hard-blocked wifi on linux?
You can block RF (radio-frequency) devices of your computer in two different levels:
soft-block
hard-block
The difference is that the soft-block is available on all computers and it can be turned on ...
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wlan0 ethernet unavailable / GENERAL.STATE 20 (unavailable)
The best way to debug this by checking the system log messages at around the time your connection disappears:
journalctl -n 1000 -u NetworkManager -u wpa_supplicant
NetworkManager does not directly ...
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Acer Aspire V5 wifi connection drops & proximity issue
I found a solution on this thread on Acer Community Forum.
I opened up my laptop back cover, located the wireless card, and switched the main(white) & auxiliary(black) antenna wires on the ...
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Is it possible to improve Wi-Fi speed by connecting to the same Wi-Fi AP with two separate cards?
If you truly have a single AP, it operates on a single radio channel, so if you connect to it with two separate cards from the same machine, they will both be splitting time on the same channel, so ...
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Wifi adapter not working Kali linux
I got the solution. We just have to upgrade our distro and kali now has provided the fix.
apt-get -yf install dist-upgrade
now this will take some time and your problem will be fixed.
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How to export and import, or backup and restore WiFi passwords saved in Windows 7?
As an admin, first export in the old machine:
netsh wlan export profile key=clear
Then copy the files over to the new machine and import them all:
FORFILES /M *.xml /C "cmd /c netsh wlan add ...
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wifi driver missing after installing windows 8.1
search for your network drivers on another computer with internet access, put it on a usb and copy it over to your computer and install.
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How to make wifi and bluetooth work simultaneously?
I faced the same problem. I have the same Intel 7265 card. Though of course parameters of both router and wireless card matter, the below kernel module parameters worked for me. Note that both are ...
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How to make wifi and bluetooth work simultaneously?
Bluetooth and 2,4 GHz Wi-Fi are working on the same bandwidth: 2400 MHz - 2483 MHz.
Bluetooth is switching channel regularly, when 802.11b,g,n & ac are using a fixed channel.
They can coexist up ...
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How to make wifi and bluetooth work simultaneously?
This isn't an answer per se, as there is insufficient information provided in the question for me to provide a resolution, but a comment requesting this information would be difficult to follow.
Are ...
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Identifying software affecting download speed
I don't have a simple, quick solution for you, but I do have an idea for something that should at least work. First I'll list some trivial things you should check for - I'm guessing you've done them ...
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Identifying software affecting download speed
Boot into Safe Mode with Networking,
to disable all non-Microsoft products.
If the problem is still there after the boot, then this is a problem with Windows itself.
Run
sfc /scannow
as checkup. If ...
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Understanding Minstrel's rc_stats file in Linux (WiFi bitrate adaptation algorithm)
According to the rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c source file, minstrel_ht_stats_dump() method (available here), the letters in the 'best rate' column in the rc_stats file mean the following:
A : ...
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