Hey guys
I have a new PC for work (running fedora 28), and I am having some trouble getting wifi to it. I bought a new wifi stick - a tplink (model tl-wn823N, vendor realtek product id #003802.11n NI), and it doesn't seem to work at all - it detects all the wifi connections available, but fails to connect to anything (messages log:
https://pastebin.com/G8pbgg3S).
I used a pretty old wifi stick I have - asus model usb-n13 (802.11b/g/n), and that does connect, though it can take 2 or so attempts. However this connection is very very very slow (im talking 10-20KB/s). I thought maybe its to do with our office wifi (the router is very new, so maybe using some new standard or something), so I tried with my mobile hotspot, and the speed is a lot better but still much slower than either my mobile wifi or data (not sure which hotspot will use). Now we are talking maybe 200KB/s
I thought maybe it's because the PC wifi stick is lower than my laptop (though only by like 50cm), and so I tried to plug it into my monitor (this is still the asus that is working), but then it does not connect - even to my mobile hotspot. It does see all the connections once more, but there is some issue authenticating (
https://pastebin.com/JXrXpvpQ).
So I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do now. My laptop (also running fedora) and phone both connect to office wifi fine and have very good speed (over 50 Mb/s ), so I am wondering what the issue might be with the wifi sticks.
Can someone recommend a good wifi stick that is well supported by existing linux drivers? I couldn't find a good answer to this while googling.
Any other suggestions welcome.
