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As you can see here, and being able to see a 10 second video, the adapter works just fine:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 64:70:02:08:6b:56
inet addr:192.168.178.30 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6670:2ff:fe08:6b56/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6363147 (6.3 MB) TX bytes:314392 (314.3 KB)
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
Link Quality=63/70 Signal level=-47 dBm
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.
