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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Wifi status indicator
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 10:21:47 +0100
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On 01/07/2024 23:32, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 01/07/2024 19:59, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> Since setting up my new Pi5 some oddities have emerged with
>> the WiFi, includidng seemingly slow/erratic ping times despite
>> a near 100% link quality as measured with wavemon. The icon
>> in the top menu bar didn't light up all the way, suggesting
>> some disagreement between wavemon and the OS . At one point
>> wavemon reported that rfkill had prevemted wifi startup, though
>> rfkill reported both wifi and bluetooth unblocked. There was
>> one report online of a bookworm bug along this line, does it
>> aply to RasPiOS?
>>
>> Between the two, I'm rather confused. Over the past year or
>> two wifi has gotten worse,I thought because of interference
>> from neighbors, who now number close to 20. But, during a scan
>> wavemon consistently reports my access point as the strongest
>> signal. Is "strongest signal" not sufficient by itself?
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>>
>> bob prohaska
> 
> 
> Check the channels they are using - then choose something else
> 
Helps but does not totally cure

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