when I'm downloading big files, my wifi get's interupted and the connection drops. I then have to switch off/on the wifi to be able to get a connection again. This is very anoying!
I have a Dell XPS 17 (Jan 2012) and following is output from mintwifi:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
==> PCI ID = 8086:0083
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"WL-Home/AP-Boven"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: 00:18:E7:E2:EF:C2
Bit Rate=39 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=43/70 Signal level=-67 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:19126 Invalid misc:202 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:8f:69:bd:5b:be
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11690700 (11.6 MB) TX bytes:11690700 (11.6 MB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:e5:0b:75:96:1e
inet addr:192.168.2.198 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::76e5:bff:fe75:961e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:228353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:115519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:345000391 (345.0 MB) TX bytes:10053066 (10.0 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.101
Address: 192.168.2.101#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.113
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.138
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.101
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.139
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.102
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.136.100
I really hope somebody can help me!
Thanks
