How to maximize wi fi gain Mint 20.2?

deepakdeshp · Post by **deepakdeshp** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:15 am

I have a 1 year old Ryzen Mint 20.2 laptop. The wi-fi signal becomes erratic when taken to another room.I have another 6 year old Mint 20.2 laptop for which wi-fi strength never fluctuates. I though the newer machine will have a better wi-fi network.

inxi report for the problem laptop is

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 inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-gr0xxx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 87D1 v: 38.12 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.01 
  date: 05/08/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 28.4 Wh condition: 36.3/41.9 Wh (86%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 
  bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 33536 
  Speed: 1252 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1290 2: 1246 
  3: 1136 4: 1224 5: 1403 6: 1275 7: 1397 8: 1225 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  bus ID: 04:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.0-20-generic LLVM 10.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.0-devel - padoka PPA direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.5 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-20-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A port: 2000 
  bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 181.83 GiB (19.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB 
  temp: 40 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 211.35 GiB used: 116.83 GiB (55.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.79 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 55 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 310 Uptime: 51m Memory: 5.81 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (36.5%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17