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linux + wireless at work #77

Open ruebenramirez opened 9 years ago

ruebenramirez commented 9 years ago

Windows and Macs don't have problems with the wifi at work, so why is linux so painful?

ruebenramirez commented 9 years ago

lots of good info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration#Check_the_driver_status

try scanning for APs # iw dev wlan0 scan | less

[ ] are there a ton of APs broadcasting the same ESSID?
linux might forever be searching and finding an AP with "better" signal strength. Wondering if there's a way to disable this via kernel configuration (a.k.a. without driver modification)

ruebenramirez commented 9 years ago

monitor signal strength with iw

#!/bin/bash
IFACE="wlan0"
LIMIT="-75"
while true; do
        signal=$(iw $IFACE link | grep signal | awk '{print $2}')
        [ $signal ] && [ $signal -lt $LIMIT ] && iw $IFACE disconnect
        echo $signal
        sleep 1
done

source: http://superuser.com/a/441560

this guy also recommends using wicd - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wicd

ruebenramirez commented 9 years ago

recommendations from community that netcfg is a non-graphical wireless network manager that performs better than the standard Network-Manager applications/applets https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg