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Originally Posted by AlucardZero
They may be, but wireless is so flaky in Linux
Well, my wireless has been fine and stable since iwlwifi stabilized. I'm sorry your experience with it is disappointing but that doesn't make your statement true.
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Well, I've connected successfully now. But it just seems to randomly stop accessing the network that it's quite frustrating.
As far as my statement is concerned, it is true in my own experience. Every time I've had to deal with wireless, I've had so many different kinds of issues crop up, from unavailability of drivers or firmware, or simply (and most frustratingly) the kind of errors that I come up in connecting to an access point using any OS other than Windows, lack of connectivity, very slow connectivity even when the signal is strong and disconnections. This has happened even on Windows machines when I was working in a corporate environment. It might not be the typical user experience though and I might just have been unlucky.
And more than on one occasion using ndiswrapper rendered my system unstable. That also contributed to the bad experience of wireless.
My contention is that the whole wireless technology is flaky and prone to error, not just Linux drivers. Cabled or wired connection has been so trouble free I sometimes even forget they even exist sometimes.
