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deepakdeshp
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Signal strength low wi-fi

Post by deepakdeshp »

I have 2 HP laptops both running Mint 21 Cinnamon and kernel 5,15. This laptop has wi-fi strength 55 while the older laptop has it 79 %
Is there aby way to increase it from 55%?

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System:
  Host: laptop Kernel: 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.2.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.9 tk: GTK 3.24.33 dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-gr0xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 87D1 v: 38.25 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.25 date: 08/18/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 20.1 Wh (77.3%) condition: 26.0/41.9 Wh (62.1%)
    volts: 11.3 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 serial: 41167
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
    bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB
    L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1250 high: 1312 min/max: 1400/2100 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 1221 2: 1221 3: 1312 4: 1311 5: 1283 6: 1213 7: 1217 8: 1228
    bogomips: 33537
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:15d8
  Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2.1:3 chip-ID: 30c9:0013
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 diag: 395mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42
  5.15.0-46-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-46-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: 84:2a:fd:72:1f:ad
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8821ce v: v5.5.2.1_35598.20191029 pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 5c:3a:45:9a:4d:e9
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A
    mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:01
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A
    mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:08
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-2.3:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b00a
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: 5C:3A:45:9A:4D:EA
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 7644
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 148.21 GiB (15.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: WKPE1MMG
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 210.91 GiB used: 15.07 GiB (7.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 98.1 MiB (38.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 20.0 C mobo: 10.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2400
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cappelikan-ppa-jammy.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cappelikan/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadsnakes-ppa-jammy.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/linuxmint-mirror/packages vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu-mirror/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu-mirror/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu-mirror/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb https://tagplus5.github.io/vscode-ppa/ubuntu ./
Info:
  Processes: 273 Uptime: 20m Memory: 5.74 GiB used: 1.6 GiB (27.9%)
  Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13
  
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Deepak

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Re: Signal strength low wi-fi

Post by sleeper12 »

Be sure Power Management is off. Check iwconfig
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