The weird thing is that it seems to be working? Either I misdiagnosed the problem, or maybe my old one was just broken.

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[–] [S] 23 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Realtek. I was reading that many Realtek chipsets cause intermittent wifi drops, and that since they're pretty inexpensive, it's simpler to just get one that works. So, I went with another company that advertises as Linux compatible out of the box, plugged it in, checked it with 'lsusb', and saw the exact same Realtek chipset that my old one has.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Realtek is just ass in general. I avoid them like the plague.

    They're OK in windows, but I have never had a good experience with them on Linux.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It sounds like you're not alone, and it's what I was trying to do too! I just didn't pay close enough attention to the specs on my new adapter, lol

    Lesson learned.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Realtek cards are trash on BSD too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not sure if you have the same problem or not, but I had intermittent jitter spikes (and/or complete package drops) every 60 seconds on my Realtek chipset, ran:

    sudo iw dev wlan0 set power_save off

    And it's been stable since (just had to make a udev rule to make it persistent across boot)

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, very old. A lot of the hardware is from 2013.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Realtek only started to develop drivers in the upstream Linux kernel relatively recently, 5 years or so, and only for what was then the newest chipset. Something 88 and two letters but not 88 and other letters (I think CE).

    Does Intel WIFI still exist? If so, that is what is probably the best supported chipset.

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