Ubuntu – 15.04 32 bit unstable wifi

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So this has been a long time problem that I hoped would get fixed with some software updates. My desktop machine has been having wireless connectivity problems since an update on 14.10 and now I have installed 15.04 and replaced the network adapter yet my problem remains. Replacing the network adapter seemed to help but not completely resolve my problem. I can connect to my wireless access point but the connection periodically just drops and I have to restart the computer to get it back. Now for some basic info to help:

ifconfig

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:88:12:00  
      inet addr:10.0.0.3  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe88:1200/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
      RX bytes:9694 (9.6 KB)  TX bytes:13897 (13.8 KB)

iwconfig

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"MattWeb"  
      Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: E4:F4:C6:FB:35:89   
      Bit Rate=300 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
      Retry short limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
      Power Management:off
      Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm  
      Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
      Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:2   Missed beacon:0

lspci -knn | grep Net -A2

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8812AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8812] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:6108]
Kernel driver in use: rtl8821ae

Thanks for the help.

Best Answer

The kernel driver for this adapter is not very good.

There is a better driver from Realtek. You can install it this way

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms

Then reboot.

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