Timothy Murphy wrote: >> One room in my house is at the boundary of WiFi reception, >> and WiFi occasionally fails there. >> When this happens it is nearly always restored by re-booting. >> Re-starting NetworkManager never does the trick, however. >> Is there any other step I could take, short of re-booting? >> I'm running Fedora-21/KDE. sean darcy: > I'm about 10 feet directly across from an n wireless router. And what > you describe happens 2-3 times a day. Never on my wife's windows laptop. > BTW, I don't reboot, just disconnect and reconnect. You could be in a dead spot for wireless reception - reflections of signals around the room you're in merge and cancel out where your computer's antenna is located. Try moving position a bit. I can produce this sort of problem when just a couple of feet from an access point. You could be using the same WiFi channel as a neighbour, and the clash of each others signals messes up yours. Try changing your access point's channel. I've had that problem, too. Changing channels made a world of difference. I wish the interface that shows your nearby networks that you use to pick the one you wanted showed what channels were in use, rather than having to use some other debugging tool. It'd make setting up your wireless LANs a lot easier. Some access points have an automatic option for them to pick which channel to use. Mine always automatically picked the worst one to use. Logically speaking, it'd be scanning nearby networks, and avoiding channels that are in use; or, for where they're all in use, opting to re-use the channel with the weakest signal, presuming that it was the furthest one away. However, there's a fundamental flaw with this process - the access point can only determine best and worst channels for itself, your clients are in other locations, and which already-in-use channels are stronger and weaker, for them, will probably be a different set of channels than the access point's. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.4-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 13 22:20:50 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
