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see here:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=109583

Nice touch offering 2 bitcoins on the mint forums  :D

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As you can see here, and being able to see a 10 second video, the adapter works just fine:


But you're doing a few things that aren't exactly optimal:

- you are connecting to the same network by cable and wifi, which confuses the OS at kernel level having to decide which gateway to use when sending the packets, so you get timeouts or lack of connectivity. Solution: stick with only one method from OS start-up, and I mean don't connect the Ethernet cable at all if you want to connect through Wifi

- your router is configured to use channel 2 "Frequency: 2.412 GHz" which isn't optimal at all, always try to use odd numbers so you don't get interference with neighbor's AP using channel 1 for example

- I don't know your channel usage from other neighbour AP's, but it matters. I see your getting very poor quality Solution: change AP channel to a less used one, so you get a better signal and forget about disconnects. If that doesn't help and you are to far from the AP maybe you need another router in repeater mode.

Hope it helps.

How did it go? Did you solved the issues? Waiting for some feedback here, cheers

ohai

i just bought three new usb sticks, and one of them works...
it seems that's a common problenm with linux and usb wifi sticks.
i did find a guide pertaining to the stick i use now, and i hope i will get to fixin it soonish.

thanks for your input, however. i have taken all of it into consideration.

Glad you solved the issues  :) cheers and thanks for the tip

If you plugged things in through a usb hub, it might act strange, at least my usb stuff seems to act pretty strange when they are not connected directly (that is especially true for harddrives with NTFS partitions, which seems to be a standard.)
so perhaps it works better if they are not put in through a hub ?

do have a working usb wifi stick now, still disconnects every couple of minutes.
this is a known issue with the AVM Fritz! WLan USB N tho and i will get around to fix it.

I bought a usb wireless device for my linux machine, hoped it would utilise it.
Got the same problem. Other machines in the house had similar issues with it.

They aren't reliable. Simple I use Ethernet, where possible, or a more fully functional wireless device.
So I agree with paraipan. Only use one at a time, I'd recommend Ethernet.

If you insist on using wireless, try other channels and see about forcing your router to go G instead of N.
Strange, but I found it more reliable, also I noticed more N routers going dual channel, tell it to only use 1.

I think N is a bit more unstable, since back in school some guys had a N compatible wireless laptop, which would not talk with the router at all on that channel, only on a G channel (those were running windows.)