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Interesting that your wifi experience sounds terrible, but you've given it a "decent" rating. For me, wifi concerns are among the most important. Thanks for the feedback.

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At this point, the fix is just a matter of popping open a terminal, hitting Ctrl+R and typing "restart" to find the command that fixes things, and hitting Enter. So yeah, it is annoying but not a dealbreaker by any means for a power user. I could probably cronjob the restart, too.

could probably write a service or cron to check if it's working and restart?

Makes me think of this: https://www.amazon.com/NetReset-NR-1000US-Automated-Cycler-R... heh

This is pretty standard for any wifi connection in Ubuntu for me over 3 machines with 3 different wifi cards in 16.04

You get to restart network manger so it will do things like list wifi networks or reconnect to a network after suspend, it gets fixed for a few weeks, and then the issue comes back a few patches later.

sources:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...

Hmm, this has been happening to me running Linux on a Macbook Pro too; it didn't used to happen earlier. Wonder what broke in recent builds...

That's why I'm still using netctl.. It's 2016: some one needs to rewrite that pile of crap..

I do sudo networking restart and/or sudo network-manager restart a few times a week.

Takes 30 seconds. Annoying. Totally acceptable IMO to have an OS I otherwise love (KDE Neon).

(I like Windows 10 as well but it has a weird laggyness on my lenovo. I suspect the lenovo drivers but cannot do anything about it that I know.)

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