I'm not disagreeing, just saying that wifi is much more prevalent now than just laptops... literally I only have a cord for emergency use On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:46 AM Stephen Hemminger < stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:31:18 -0500 > Caleb Cushing wrote: > > > actually... all of my devices, including my desktop connect through wifi > > these days... and only one of them isn't running some variant of linux. > > > > Sigh. My experience with wifi is that it is not stable enough for that. > Both AP's I have tried Linksys ACM3200 or Netgear WNDR3800 I still see > random drop outs. > Not sure if these are device resets (ie workarounds) or other issues. > > These happen independent of firmware (vendor, OpenWRT, or LEDE). > So my suspicion is the that Wifi hardware is shite and that firmware is > trying > to workaround and mask the problem. > -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com