Internet Connection Problems

[Jerry Feldman]

I'm not sure how much I can help. On my laptop I get 4 or 5 bars at work =

and at home with Ubuntu 9.04. The only place I have any trouble is at=20
MSFT Waltham where the connection tends to drop mysteriously and I can't =

get back on, them mysteriously it reconnects. Being in the same room as=20
the AP eliminates distance, but not other factors. If you dual boot your =

Macbook Pro, then test the signal strength with it, then boot into=20
ubuntu. Is your wireless builtin or do you have an external card (USB or =

PCMCIA).


Make sure that you have wireless-tools installed.

 From the command line rune iwconfig. This will show you what network=20
you are connected too, bit rate (Mb/s, LInk Quality and any errors. The=20
iwlist command is also a decent diagnostic tool. There are a few other=20
tools, do a 'man wireless tools" to bring up the man page.

On 05/03/2009 07:53 PM, KyleL wrote:
> Hey everyone,  recently installed ubuntu 8.10, then upgraded to 9.04.  =
For
> the most part everything has been working fairly well.  My only problem=
 has
> been with my wireless networking.  After being idle for some time I ten=
d to
> have an issue reconnecting to the web. =20
>
> Also I have had a problem with signal strength.  Most times with Window=
s or
> OS X 10.5 I had almost full signal strength to my wireless network.  No=
w, in
> the same room as my AP, I get max 2/4 bars.
>
> Anyone have any previous problems with this?
>
> I am running Ubuntu on a macbook pro 2.16 intel core duo, with the base=
 ath9
> driver installed for my wireless card.
>
> Thanks
>
>  =20


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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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