wifi madness

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Hi,

I have a super annoying problem that is not Fedora specific, but it's
been driving me nuts for a few weeks. Any idea for a more appropriate
forum to post this in is as useful as an idea what's going on or next
steps.

Linksys WRT600N using dd-wrt in client mode, with laptop and Intel NUC
connected via wired. Both laptop and NUC would get fast.com and
speedtest.net download speeds of ~16Mbps for about 30 minutes then
tank to maybe 150kbps after that until the Linksys radio was disabled
then renabled, or just rebooted. The same thing happens when flashed
with openwrt except it only takes 5 minutes to manifest.

I assumed it was a bad radio on the WRT600N or maybe it's some
hardware incompatibility with the local APs. I went down the road of
multihoming (in previous emails I was sorting out how to get wireless
routed by default for internet and wired for local stuff.)

Well get this. The Apple laptop wireless always gets 16Mbps, it never
tanks. The Intel NUC does the same thing as the WRT600N. It gets
16Mbps for 5-10 minutes, then implodes until I do a 'nmcli c down'
followed by 'nmcli c up' sort of thing, and then it gets good
bandwidth.

So WTF?

I just noticed this odd duck behavior:

# sudo journalctl -b | grep AssocResp

laptop fedora 24 (same results with fedora 23)
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/378329/

intel NUC
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/378331/

The Apple laptop wireless is bouncing between two APs exactly two
minutes apart all the time. This is constant over weeks. But the Intel
NUC doesn't do that, it pretty much sticks with one AP for hours at a
time. All three devices are within 2 meters of each other. I have no
idea where these APs are.

Whatever is causing the Apple wifi card to go back and forth between
two APs is somehow acting like a disconnect/reconnect "fix" that I've
been doing manually with the WRT600N and NUC, which uses an Intel 3165
wireless card. Where the other two persist in holding on to an AP
where the performance has face planted.

My Motorola Android phone also doesn't have the problem.

Maybe this is enough information to forward to the IT folks who manage
this wifi setup? Is there anything else I should provide? Or some way
of making this write up more concise?

iwlist gets me this


    Cell 01 - Address: B4:C7:99:ED:F8:A8
                    Channel:11
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=46/70  Signal level=-64 dBm

    Cell 02 - Address: B4:C7:99:EE:25:08
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=60/70  Signal level=-50 dBm

    Cell 08 - Address: B4:C7:99:ED:F0:C8
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=30/70  Signal level=-80 dBm


I have no idea why anything would pick cell 08 with that kind of
signal, but bloop there it is.

I don't think this is an 802.11g vs n issue. The WRT600N does n on
dd-wrt, but only bg on openwrt. The Apple wireless is not using
proprietary driver, so 802.11n isn't supported, only bg. The Intel NUC
supports n as well as many others.

Thanks,



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Chris Murphy
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