Questions tagged [wireless-networking]
Also known as WiFi. This tag should be used when asking home WiFi networking questions or connecting your personal computer to a public network. Questions about enterprise or corporate wireless networks are off topic.
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Why is WiFi slow on kernel 6.17 but not 6.11?
My WiFi connection became noticeably slow recently on a KDE Neon system. To bisect the issue I’ve tried rolling back to kernel 6.11 and it works fine there but doesn’t work on the latest HWE (6.17.0-...
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Why am I experiencing different ping times on WiFi with two devices at the same location?
Have an issue I'm trying to troubleshoot where I have a PC where the PING to router was constantly going to 2000, this was solved by reinstalling the WiFi drivers. However now it fluctuates between 2-...
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How to communicate between two computers on the same network?
I have a Windows 11 laptop and a Windows 10 mini HP computer.
While I can "see" the HP mini computer in my Windows 11 file explorer and can access the C: drive. However I have several backup ...
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How to deal with network jitter on macOS Tahoe (26.4)?
My macOS startup drive died. I reinstalled it through the Recovery Menu to macOS Sequoia (15.6). However, I started noticing internet lag, also known as jitter. I hadn't encountered this problem ...
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Ethernet not being used in arch
I am new to the network setup and stuff, I use iwd for wifi and that works well but ethernet does not work i have set it up via systemd but it still does not get used by my system. This is what it ...
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Laptop does not wake up from sleep, dmesg shows errors related to d3cold and AX210 card
I installed Linux on my brand new laptop. Everything was working perfectly, until I tried to put my laptop to sleep (suspend). When I tried to wake it up, it took a very long time (around 5 minutes). ...
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Range extender causing duplicate IP address issues
I have multiple WiFi routers to cover dead spots. All of them are connected using Ethernet to the ISP's main router. That router is on 192.168.100.1 and has DHCP enabled. I disabled DHCP on the ...
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Why am I unable to login using Microsoft password with no WiFi?
My son is on a base, unable to log into his Windows 11 PC. It keeps saying he needs WiFi for this. WiFi was fine for past year. Have tried mobile hotspot from phone also. Nothing works and can’t get ...
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Why am I getting slow speeds when a Linux machine as Wi-Fi AP?
I’m using a Raspberry Pi 5 as a Wi‑Fi bridge (AP for my laptop + STA to dorm Wi‑Fi). I expected laptop speeds to approach the Pi’s WAN speed, but there’s a ~40 Mbps gap I can’t explain.
My setup
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Why is it that when Starlink is in bridge mode I get a fast upload, 0.7mbps download? Could this be a duplex mode issue (possibly) on TP-Link?
I've put my Starlink (gen 3 with gen 3 router) in bridge mode and connected it to the WAN of a TP-Link router (EX-141). I can connect to the internet, but download is really slow (0.7mbps) while ...
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Why does my TP-Link router in AP mode on Starlink wont work?
I have a TP-Link router (EX-141) which is officially with AP mode on, DHCP server off, and Starlink Gen 3 router is connected to the LAN1 port via an ethernet cable.
My Tapo cameras and other devices ...
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How to set up my Asus EZ N USB WiFi dongle on Ubuntu 24.04?
I have a PCS with no wireless device on it.
I added an Asus EZ N10 USB device to it. The hardware is detected but from there I do not know how to configure it.
I am new to the world of Linux I would ...
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Why am I experiencing one bar Wi-Fi signal strength on an HP laptop? And what can I do to improve things?
A few days ago I started getting one bar Wi-Fi signal strength on my HP laptop 14s-cf0055tu running Windows 10 (64-bit). I tried everything like network reset, updating the drivers, uninstalling and ...
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Network randomly switches to nonexistent ethernet connection on CachyOS
I'm on CachyOS (using dhcpcd) and sometimes the network will randomly switch to a nonexistent ethernet connection (wifi symbol changes to wired connection even though there isn't even one to connect ...
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OpenWRT: main/iot VLANs with transparency and security
I have two VLANs in my home network:
iot (for anything i consider an IoT device)
main (for everything
else)
I am using OpenWRT.
Each VLAN has its own subnet.
iot: 192.168.1.0/24
main: 192.168.0.0/...
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