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averyvh 2015 年 2 月 4 日 下午 10:48
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I have this usb wifi adapter on my desktop. It seems to work fine, great download speeds, decent connection (it is rather far from the router though). but every so often I just lose my connection to the internet. It says it is still connected to the internet, but steam can't download anything and web pages will not load. I want to say there is some sort of pattern, but I really don't think there is. Sometimes it reconnects again after a minute, sometimes it won't. This was with Xubuntu 14.04 so I installed 14.10 but the problem persisted. I just installed Manjaro and after only one minute it happened again. Is it a driver problem? Or should I just buy another wifi adapter?

UPDATE: saw this fix when searching https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes/blob/master/README.md
tried it yesterday on Xubuntu 14.10 and it made it worse. Now I can't use the wifi at all.
最后由 averyvh 编辑于; 2015 年 2 月 11 日 下午 7:40
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Davey Darko 2015 年 2 月 4 日 下午 11:06 
Have you tried changing the WiFi channel? Other WiFi access points in the area or other electronics might be interfering with the signal, if so changing the radio channel could help.
averyvh 2015 年 2 月 4 日 下午 11:10 
引用自 Davey Darko
Have you tried changing the WiFi channel? Other WiFi access points in the area or other electronics might be interfering with the signal, if so changing the radio channel could help.
would that be in the router settings? The thing is that laptops and android devices in the same room have always worked fine.

EDIT: found it, changed to auto, wifi adapter still has problems
最后由 averyvh 编辑于; 2015 年 2 月 4 日 下午 11:27
Zyro 2015 年 2 月 5 日 上午 12:27 
This sounds just like what I've got with my TL-WDN3200 (N600) 5 GHz adapter...
Xantas 2015 年 2 月 5 日 上午 3:58 
Mr. Knob 2015 年 2 月 5 日 上午 9:14 
引用自 averyvh
I have this usb wifi adapter on my desktop. It seems to work fine, great download speeds, decent connection (it is rather far from the router though). but every so often I just lose my connection to the internet. It says it is still connected to the internet, but steam can't download anything and web pages will not load. I want to say there is some sort of pattern, but I really don't think there is. Sometimes it reconnects again after a minute, sometimes it won't. This was with Xubuntu 14.04 so I installed 14.10 but the problem persisted. I just installed Manjaro and after only one minute it happened again. Is it a driver problem? Or should I just buy another wifi adapter?

I have the exactly same WIFI adapter but my issue is different. First off let me begin by saying that this adapter is great, worked as it should ( on windows :( ) and no problems. I got it when I had Windows 7 and everything went smoothly. Then I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and the problems started when I wanted to play any game online ( TF2, L4D2, etc. ).

In normal browsing, no problem what so ever, but the moment I played a game online, my game would stutter, my ping went from 40-50 to 250+ for like 10 seconds then back to normal, then after maybe 2-5 minutes of normality again huge, etc. This issue bothered me like mad since I tend to play competitive as well and I needed a fluent connection.

In the begging I thought it's my router but after resetting and changing settings, still no joy and the stuttering persisted. So I took a closer look at the adapter. After spending around 2 days for solutions, I came up with nothing. I found forums of manually upgrading my Kernel, since many ppl had the same adapter and same problem ( DoTA 2 forums ), after updating the Kernel my ubuntu stopped booting... long story short, reinstalled ubuntu :(.

Then some guys on another forum suggested I should try windows drivers for linux ( or similar name, I forgot, but it's a program ). I tried that, it found new drivers, it installed, asked me to restart my PC which I did and BAM! Ubuntu didn't reboot... again. Had to reinstall... again :(.

At this point I was so frustrated and angry that I wanted to screw the adapter. The final forum I found was a man that made a big technical detail about this adapter and Ubuntu and in the end, after everything he tried he gave up and suggested ppl should either get a different adapter ( in his case non TP-Link ) or use cable connection.

So in the end of the day, I ended up using cable and my games never had any more problems ever since nor my connection.

/rant?? <-- not sure if it was a rant or not but if it was I apologyse but this adapter frustrated me to the max.

Anyways, OP I would suggest you also ditch this since somewhere there is a problem and many ppl tried but could not pin it down. It's a shame because on windows it works normally :(.

Good luck to you, maybe you will be more lucky than me with a solution. Have a nice day :)
最后由 Mr. Knob 编辑于; 2015 年 2 月 5 日 上午 9:20
averyvh 2015 年 2 月 5 日 下午 2:26 
引用自 Xantas
I think it could be the power saving management. Have a look here:
https://itechscotland.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/how-to-permanently-turn-off-wi-fi-power-management-in-ubuntu/


Its on a desktop, but I will give that a try.

引用自 Ad1♥♥♥Kr1S


So in the end of the day, I ended up using cable and my games never had any more problems ever since nor my connection.

/rant?? <-- not sure if it was a rant or not but if it was I apologyse but this adapter frustrated me to the max.

Anyways, OP I would suggest you also ditch this since somewhere there is a problem and many ppl tried but could not pin it down. It's a shame because on windows it works normally :(.

Good luck to you, maybe you will be more lucky than me with a solution. Have a nice day :)


Really, really wish I could get a cable to my room, but that is quite a long way across my house. The router is back against the wall in the very corner of the basement and my desktop is against the wall in the opposite corner of the floor above. They are as far apart as is possible in my house.

I wonder though if I could buy a router or something to put in my room, have it connected wirelessly to the network, then route a cable from that. Is that possible and/or not too expensive? That would get around both the issue of cables and Linux wireless problems.
averyvh 2015 年 2 月 5 日 下午 2:41 
iwconfig says "power management : off"
Xantas 2015 年 2 月 6 日 上午 2:24 
Ok then, it isn't the power management.
Maybe you could try to use a fixed ip. You can either config your Ubuntu to have a fixed one (but remember to tell your DHCP/router to not assign that particular ip address) or config your DHCP to always assign the same address to the MAC of your wi-fi device.

Another solution: to buy a couple of powerline to connect your router to your pc by your electrical system (around 25-30€ ). This is very helpful when you have router and pc on different floors.
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