problems with wireless

Gary J. Kirkpatrick garyartista at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 12:55:20 UTC 2014 

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <
> garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <
>> garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
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>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <
>>> garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Randy Williamson <ac7nj at arrl.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have had the same problem before. The solution was my network
>>>>> configuration for Comcast had to be changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy ac7nj
>>>>> On Oct 23, 2014 5:20 AM, "Gary J. Kirkpatrick" <garyartista at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  My wireless connection works flawless for some time and then I am
>>>>>> unable
>>>>>> to get anywhere on the internet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I disable wireless connections in network manager, all is well at
>>>>>> least for some time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  description: Wireless interface
>>>>>>        product: Wireless 7260
>>>>>>        vendor: Intel Corporation
>>>>>>        physical id: 0
>>>>>>        bus info: pci at 0000:09:00.0
>>>>>>        logical name: wlan0
>>>>>>        version: 73
>>>>>>        serial: 80:86:f2:e5:1a:fa
>>>>>>        width: 64 bits
>>>>>>        clock: 33MHz
>>>>>>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
>>>>>> physical wireless
>>>>>>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi
>>>>>> driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=22.24.8.0 ip=192.168.1.102
>>>>>> latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
>>>>>>        resources: irq:63 memory:b2500000-b2501fff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My other computer running Bodhi runs much more reliably.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/470279/internet-slow-on-ubuntu-14-04
>>>>>>  tried the solution here
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and here
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://itsfoss.com/speed-up-slow-wifi-connection-ubuntu/ (2,3,4 and
>>>>>> 6).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sometimes the internet is blazing fast and a second later I can not
>>>>>> load gmail.  SOmetimes it is great for hours on end.  Often if I disconnect
>>>>>> wifi and reconnect is (even if immediately) it is usually much faster after
>>>>>> that, for a while.   I am pretty certain that at times the problem is with
>>>>>> the ISP as both computers are effected at the same time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> garyk
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>> he's in NYC.
>>>>
>>>> garyk
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Been working quite well last 24 hours.  But when it seemed to fail this
>>> morning I ran over to the router, plugged in there and it was working quite
>>> well.  Disabled wifi and re-enabled and it has worked fine since.
>>>
>>>  ping 192.168.1.1
>>> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=1.01 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=1.03 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.965 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=0.995 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=0.959 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=254 time=1.02 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=254 time=0.945 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=254 time=1.08 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=254 time=1.04 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=254 time=1.24 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=254 time=1.06 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=254 time=1.14 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=254 time=1.11 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=254 time=1.03 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=254 time=5.10 ms
>>>
>>> This is the output just now.  Are those output variations normal?
>>> 1.01 down to .945, th3n there's that 5.10 at the end
>>>
>>>
>>> garyk
>>>
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>>
>>
>> It was quite the nightmare yesterday afternoon.  The W8 computer was
>> fine.  I could not reliably connect with the ethernet cable nor
>> wirelessly.  Then it was fine all night, I even streamed videos without
>> difficulty.
>>
>> While I was having difficulty I switched users-  same difficulty.
>>
>> I am using 14.04.
>>
>> Would switching to WICD help?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> garyk
>>
>>
>>
> http://www.speedtest.net shows a download rate of .65 on the ubuntu 14.04
> computer but around 4 mps on the windows computer.  So must be something
> wrong!  Anyone here have any suggestions?
>
>
> thanks
>
>
> garyk
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I installed WICD but got some error messages at install and could not
connect to the wireless.  If I can not solve this problem I will have to
dump ubuntu 14.04.  Maybe 12.04 will work.  Or?

garyk
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