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Realtek RTL8723BE Wi-Fi incredibly weak

I have a HP 14-AN001NA laptop. It came with Windows 10 installed on which the Wi-Fi worked fine anywhere in the house. However I removed Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.04 instead and since I ...
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Wi-Fi doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (RTL8723BE)

When I installed Ubuntu for the first time I had to do some work with the terminal because my Wi-Fi reception was lower than on Windows: echo "options rtl8723be ips=0 fwlps=0 ant_sel=1" | sudo tee /...
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Wifi networks not found ubuntu 18.04 with rtl8723be

I had recently updated to Ubuntu 18.04. All was working fine until today morning when I was not able to connect to the wifi. When I try to scan for networks it shows no networks found. When I run ...
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Wifi signal strength weak on Ubuntu 18.04 with rtl8723be

I have the Realtek rtl8723be driver on my HP-Pavillion Notebook. While installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS through plug-n-play option, I tried the following commands before actual installation: sudo ...
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Realtek RTL8723BE weak wifi signal and disconnects [duplicate]

Model: HP 15-af030ur inside Realtek RTL8723B *ware: 2 years have problems under Linux Ubuntu 14.04LTS -> 16.04LTS -> 17.04 Gnome 3.24 wayland Problem: weak wifi signal problem in ubuntu based linux ...
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Slow speed on Hotspot created from Ubuntu 16.04 with RTL8723BE Wireless Network Adapter

History I ran into a weird problem yesterday(on 13 Jan 2018). My Ubuntu was not able to get strong signals of Wifi. I once encountered this problem before and was able to fix it using this post. The ...
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Inconsistent connection and super slow speed with RTL8723BE

I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop with a RTL8723BE adapter and the Wi-Fi is really spotty. Sometimes available wireless networks won't even show up in the menu, and other times just the network in ...
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HP 17 -x061nr: Cannot Enable Wireless

Note - I know nothing about Linux, just switched over from Windows. Also not an accomplished coder. Installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell laptop; it worked. Installed it on an HP laptop (model 17 -x061nr)...
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Realtek driver RTL8723BE not working in Ubuntu 16.04 (kernel 4.4)

I upgraded from Ubuntu 15.10 (on which the driver had no issues whatsoever), to the LTS version 16.04 a day back. I knew I would have to reinstall the wifi driver for my card(Realtek RTL8723BE), and ...
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Bluetooth (rtl8723be) does not find devices on Lenovo Ideapad 100-14iby

I'm an Italian Xubuntu user and have a problem with Lenovo Ideapad 100-14iby. Problem --> Bluetooth seems to work but does not find devices I think the problem is the network card, RTL8723BE. About ...
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Networking - Install wifi Adapter HP laptop Ubuntu 18.10 rtl8723be

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu from 17.10 to 18.10 and I have lost my WiFi adapter drivers I can't see WiFi option in the menu list. I have tried installing drives from repo https://github.com/lwfinger/...
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Problems with Realtek 8723BE

Just bought a new Lenovo Ideapad 100 14IBD, was having Wifi problems, lspci told me that the wifi card (RTL8723BE) was the same as my 2nd laptop (old one), so as usual I did what this answer stated, ...
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Wi-Fi connectivity issue - Ubuntu 18.04

I'm new to Ubuntu and I've 18.04 installed. Not sure if this is due to faulty installation or something, but I'm having trouble with very slow Wi-Fi speeds and frequent disconnections. Here is a ...
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I can't see Wifi networks. I have realtek wireless card, model: RTL8723BE

I upgraded Ubuntu from 15.04 to 16.04. I have tried reinstalling rtlwifi-new-dkms Wifi problems with rtl8723be in Ubuntu 14.04 Also, I disabled Secure Boot in BIOS, which help reactivating the ...
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