Wifi connection to router keeps dropping

Pedroski · 01-14-2024, 12:58 PM

I am way out in the country, down a valley in Southern Spain. This house has a Huawei router with a Vodafone SIM card.

I can connect to the router and load internet pages, but the connection keeps dropping. I click the refresh button a few times and the page comes back. But that is starting to get annoying!

My friend, a Windows user, says he never had this problem.

I am quite close to the router.

I pinged the router just to see:

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ ping -c 5 192.168.8.101
PING 192.168.8.101 (192.168.8.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.8.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.8.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.8.101: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.080 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.8.101: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.8.101: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.075 ms

--- 192.168.8.101 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4097ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.062/0.074/0.080/0.006 ms
pedro@pedro-HP:~$

Any ideas what may be wrong?

michaelk · 01-14-2024, 03:08 PM

With wifi there are a lot of variables.

A x.x.x.101 router address would not be typical for a home /24 network?

Did your computer ever connect without problems?
What type of wifi adapter is in your computer as well as the router?

Pedroski · 01-15-2024, 08:27 AM

Sorry, I should have put that info, didn't think of it!

Well, in the other house, in the village Grazalema, at the top of the valley, I do not have this problem, at least not the last time I was there.

Here is the output from sudo lshw -C network showing the adapter:

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlo1
version: 00
serial: 64:6c:80:0c:8b:7b
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8821ce driverversion=6.5.0-14-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.8.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:79 ioport:f000(size=256) memory:fe600000-fe60ffff
pedro@pedro-HP:~$

michaelk · 01-15-2024, 09:12 AM

Not that is relevant but many years ago I had change the wifi settings on the router because my laptop would not stay connected. I changed settings on the router and it worked but in the end it was the router's wifi that was the problem. What type of wifi (b/g/n/ac etc) is on the router?

Are you sure the connection is between the computer and the router or from the router to the mobile tower?

Pedroski · 01-15-2024, 09:32 AM

Sorry again, I don't know what type of wifi is on the router.

How would I discover that?

I don't know where the tower is here. If I sit outside on the terrace above, I have no connection to the router and therefore no internet. So I don't think the computer connects to the tower.

Today, just now, the connection has not dropped so much, but still keeps happening. Could be the connection between the router and the tower I suppose.

michaelk · 01-15-2024, 09:46 AM

I don't know except for looking up the model number.
Does the router's have wifi 5GHz capability? If so, does it have separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5GHz? And if it does have separate SSIDs have you tried selecting one or the other?

Pedroski · 01-16-2024, 10:18 AM

The router seems to have 5G and 2.4, 1 SSID.

Today it seems to be working better. Maybe the rain helps? It's usually very dry here, but today we have rain!

Thanks for trying, I appreciate it!