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So my wireless card works. At home, it would work nicely on both Windows 8 and Ubuntu, with a very steady, sustained connection. However, now that university started, I'm in a hub with much more traffic, and the connection is exceedingly choppy. My old laptop had no issues in that hum (I sit litterally at the same desk).
So here are a few things:
morphheus@nyx:~$ cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS"
morphheus@nyx:~$ lspci | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
morphheus@nyx:~$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"wpa.mcgill.ca"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:1E:DE:3E:43
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:329 Missed beacon:0
morphheus@nyx:~$ modprobe -l | grep rtl -i
kernel/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/rtl8180.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtlwifi.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/rtl8192c-common.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/rtl8723ae.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.ko
kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb-usb-rtl28xxu.ko
kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2830.ko
kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8187se.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192u_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_crypt_ccmp.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_crypt_tkip.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_crypt_wep.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192e_pci.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8712/r8712u.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko
kernel/drivers/platform/x86/ibm_rtl.ko
morphheus@nyx:~$ lspci -v
05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2114
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8723ae
Kernel modules: rtl8723ae
The signal strength is very similar to what I had on my old laptop, but it fluctuates a damn lot. One thing I realize is that while the wireless rtl8723ae
driver is loaded, I don't see any 8723 driver loaded for the PCI card.
Again, the connection works in a quiet area, but is horrible in a busy area. Reports on internet is that the card itself is just bad design, and I should get a new one.
Before I go and change my wireless card with my old laptop's (or a new one if it's incompatible), does anyone have an idea on how I could stabilize my wireless connection?
Many thanks
lspci -v
, as that shows the driver in use as well.