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Either you drop a signal, your wireless connections  flakes out, your connection is slow, or your wireless device winds up  MIA. Either way, there are times you’ll wind up having to troubleshoot  or tinker to get the most out of that connection. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEveryone using Linux knows that wireless problems aren’t  limited to our favorite open source platform. As with printers, all  operating systems can succumb to the woes of wireless. Fortunately, with  Linux, there are plenty of ways to prevent or fix the problems.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor those that like to eke out the most power and  functionality from their system, I will provide a few tips and tricks  specific to wireless connectivity. Hopefully, one of these tips will be  exactly what you need to get the most out of your own wireless  connection.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI will be demonstrating these tips using \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ubuntugnome.org\/\"\u003EUbuntu GNOME\u003C\/a\u003E 15.10 and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/elementary.io\/\"\u003Eelementary OS Freya\u003C\/a\u003E.  If you’re using a different distribution, you’ll only need to make  minor alterations to the command structure for this to work (such as, \u003Ci\u003Esu\u003C\/i\u003E’ing to root instead of using \u003Ci\u003Esudo\u003C\/i\u003E).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIncrease Wireless Signal Strength\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBelieve it or not, you can actually strengthen the signal  of your wireless card. It’s not very hard, but it does require the use  of the command line. What this tip does is increase the TX (or transmit)  power of your wireless card. For those that don’t know, the TX power is  the broadcasting power of your transmitting antenna. Typically, the TX  power is set to 20 dBm, but can be set to significantly higher values.  Here’s what you need to do:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Col style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nOpen up a terminal window\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nIssue the command\u003Ci\u003E ifconfig\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nDetermine the name of your wireless card (mine is wlp4s0)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nInstall wavemon with the command \u003Ci\u003Esudo apt-get install wavemon\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nRun the \u003Ci\u003Ewavemon\u003C\/i\u003E command and notate the TX value under Statistics\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nBring your wireless connection down with the command \u003Ci\u003Eifconfig wlp4s0 down\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nSet the wireless regional setting to Bolivia (where they allow the use of 1000 mW tx-power) with the command \u003Ci\u003Eiw reg set BO\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nBring the wireless connection back up with the command \u003Ci\u003Esudo ifconfig wlp4s0 up\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nRerun the \u003Ci\u003Ewavemon\u003C\/i\u003E command and take note of the TX value\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter switching the regional setting on my card, the TX  value saw a significant increase. Check out the values of the  post-configured TX settings (see Figure 1 above).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere are some caveats to setting such a high TX:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cul style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nYou might find your wireless card getting a bit too hot, which can lead to data errors\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\nExcessive power usage, which can heat up the board surrounding the wireless chip\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIf you start seeing errors associated with wireless, or  your machine reboots or shuts down for no reason, you should set the TX  power to a lower setting. If that’s the case, you can always set a  specific TX rating with a command like:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/learn\/docs\/ldp\/872372-tips-and-tricks-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-linux-wifi\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECONTINUE READING =\u0026gt;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/co\/mFdp\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.bungker.co.id\/feeds\/1652586105465087511\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.bungker.co.id\/2015\/12\/tips-and-tricks-to-get-most-out-of-your.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4562681011204589043\/posts\/default\/1652586105465087511"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4562681011204589043\/posts\/default\/1652586105465087511"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.bungker.co.id\/2015\/12\/tips-and-tricks-to-get-most-out-of-your.html","title":"Tips and Tricks to Get the Most out of Your Linux WiFi "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Bungker Corp"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14576039512366647631"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}});