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Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#21

I'm so relieved to find that its not just me going crazy all this time. Its gotten so bad that I've had to install a bloody MediaTek WiFi card in my ThinkPad just to make it work reliably. I remember when the 8000 series radios were the gold standard for mobile wireless, all the newer AX cards have been nothing but pain and suffering.

And Intel was the last reliable wifi chip maker I knew. What are good, well supported (on linux) wifi chipsets these days?

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#22

I'm so relieved to find that its not just me going crazy all this time. Its gotten so bad that I've had to install a bloody MediaTek WiFi card in my ThinkPad just to make it work reliably. I remember when the 8000 series radios were the gold standard for mobile wireless, all the newer AX cards have been nothing but pain and suffering.

And Intel was the last reliable wifi chip maker I knew. What are good, well supported (on linux) wifi chipsets these days?

I can only speak for myself here, but I'm running a MediaTek MT7921 on Fedora 37, I picked it up on eBay for £12 and its been spot on.

Unlike my Intel AX210 I can actually get a full gigabit down sat next to my router.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#24

I'm so relieved to find that its not just me going crazy all this time. Its gotten so bad that I've had to install a bloody MediaTek WiFi card in my ThinkPad just to make it work reliably. I remember when the 8000 series radios were the gold standard for mobile wireless, all the newer AX cards have been nothing but pain and suffering.

> all the newer AX cards have been nothing but pain and suffering.

This is surprising for me to hear. My AX201 hasn't given me any trouble at all, ever. Maybe I've been getting lucky.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#25
A friend of mine had intermitent WiFi issues for a long time. One WiFi they could just never even find, until we figured out the Intel WiFi driver for their WiFi-Chipset contained a bug causing 2ghz WiFis on channel 13 to not be visible. It is a tiring process to identify issues like this in drivers. Really sucks when manufacturers just do not test their software.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#27
To be honest, I bought a new laptop when AX 5GHz releaded and installed my own Linux work setup. Boom wifi interl disconnects every 5-10min on 5Ghz. I had reconnect manually because do some issues with drivers. With the total pain I moved to windows setup. It's unbelievable that such a premium products breaks on major operating systems.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hug of death from HN visitors. For fellow website admins, this is your regular reminder to use static site generators, where possible, and server-side cache where not.

I’d argue SSG and caching are the same solution just a difference in where the cache resides (disk vs memory) and warming strategy (on-demand vs preemptive)

How often does a bug tracker get that much traffic? And using an SSG for one when tons of the queries will have specific filtering terms doesn't seem so great either.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hug of death from HN visitors. For fellow website admins, this is your regular reminder to use static site generators, where possible, and server-side cache where not.

I’d argue SSG and caching are the same solution just a difference in where the cache resides (disk vs memory) and warming strategy (on-demand vs preemptive)

> where the cache resides (disk vs memory)

local vs CDN that is...

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d argue SSG and caching are the same solution just a difference in where the cache resides (disk vs memory) and warming strategy (on-demand vs preemptive)

How often does a bug tracker get that much traffic? And using an SSG for one when tons of the queries will have specific filtering terms doesn't seem so great either.

Bugzilla routinely falls on its knees just from internal use.
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