As the title says.
I can be surfing the web just fine, but for example after stopping at a link to read a lengthy article or watch a video, upon continuing my browsing I have to wait an extended amount of time for the connection to re-establish, usually about 30s to 1m. After that I can resume internet use as usual until the next period of inactivity. Also during the inactive period, the bit-rate drops from a usual 72Mb/s to 7 Mb/s.
At the moment I am using an rtl8192cu chipset with the default Ubuntu 16.04 drivers. I have found a possible solution offered here: Wifi problems with rtl8723be in Ubuntu 14.04 but I am hesitant in installing the package just yet knowing how easy it is to bork your system with a faulty update. I'd rather not risk losing total internet connection as wireless is my main mode of access.
lsmod | grep rtl output:
rtl8xxxu 69632 0
rtl8192cu 65536 0
rtl_usb 20480 1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common 49152 1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi 69632 3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu
mac80211 659456 4 rtl8xxxu,rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
cfg80211 499712 2 mac80211,rtlwifi
Already tried:
sudo gedit /etc/pm/config.d/config
SUSPEND_MODULES="rtl8192cu_pci"
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d
options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0
Although it looks like iwlwifi is disabled by default in lsmod
Again I am not quite trusting in the update although it seems like people have reported success after following the steps. Has anyone installed the package here recently and can back up the claims of it working?
