Everything was working fine until I upgraded my Ubuntu version to 16.04 recently.My wifi gets disconnected after every 10-20 mins. Sometimes it gets even worse and it gets disconnected in just 5 mins.
I have read this another question in AskUbuntu and tried to implement what the OP accepted as the answer.
16.04 LTS wifi connection issues
Now what I have done till now is I got my wifi details using
sudo lshw -C network
And here is what I got
*-network description: Wireless interface product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) vendor: Qualcomm Atheros physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: wlo1 version: 01 serial: 78:e4:00:6f:e0:e6 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=4.13.0-45-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:16 memory:c3400000-c340ffff *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: enp3s0 version: 03 serial: c8:0a:a9:d2:bf:d3 size: 10Mbit/s capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s resources: irq:24 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:c1404000-c1404fff memory:c1400000-c1403fff memory:c2400000-c240ffff
The output for iwconfig is:
enp3s0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlo1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"One Piece"
Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point:
70:62:B8:8B:A9:6F
Bit Rate=6.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=42/70 Signal level=-68 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:2293 Missed beacon:0
I also tried installing WICD and using it after removing all the configuration files of Network-Manager but it also loses connection after 20-30 mins and then gets worse by disconnecting randomly. Any solutions?
Best Answer
Sometimes, wireless gets disconnected because of settings in the router. First, most routers are set by default to the lowest common denominators including WPA and WPA2 auto-select, AES and TKIP auto-select and, worse of all, auto channel select. Here is a very interesting thread about auto channel select and why it doesn’t work at all well: https://superuser.com/questions/1311149/why-do-wifi-routers-do-such-a-bad-job-of-channel-selection
First, check the settings in the router. WPA2-AES is preferred; not any WPA and WPA2 mixed mode and certainly not TKIP. Second, if your router is capable of N speeds, you may have better connectivity with a channel width of 20 MHz in the 2.4 GHz band instead of automatic 20/40 MHz, although it is likely to affect N speeds. I also have better luck with a fixed channel, either 1, 6 or 11, rather than automatic channel selection. Also, be certain the router is not set to use N speeds only; auto B, G and N is preferred. After making these changes, reboot the router.
Next, I recommend that your regulatory domain be set explicitly. Check yours:
If you get 00, that is a one-size-maybe-fits-all setting. Find yours here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 Then set it temporarily:
Of course, substitute your country code if not Iceland. Set it permanently:
Change the last line to read:
Proofread carefully, save and close the text editor.
After rebooting the router and the computer, please tell us if there is any improvement.