My Intel wireless cards cannot maintain a 6ghz wireless connection for shit despite some of them being over 5 years old. And Intel. Latest stuff, older kernels, none work well. Oddly whatever version of Fedora I had worked the best. My wifi wasn't unusable when 6ghz was an option. It only dropped to 5/2.4ghz once a minute instead of every 5-20 seconds.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me any Wi-Fi drops were solved by disabling power saving in NetworkManager

Create a conf file:
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-powersave.conf

Add this into the config file:

[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2

Then restart NetworkManager or reboot your system

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I tried this but it didn't seem to help. Mostly because it only wants to use 5ghz. I think I tried doing a bunch of "fixes" so maybe I should just start fresh. This is on my testing machine that I don't use regularly so only god knows what I've done to it.

Also did you do this on a laptop with S0 standby? How does that affect sleep?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My guess is that you are noticing the difference between new and old kernels

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but that doesn't change that it's regressed since that one version and still hasn't been re fixed.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If the old (or LTS) version of the kernel doesn't support something newer, and the new version of the kernel does, that would not be a regression.

I learned this when Skylake first came out. Ubuntu LTS didn't work on it because it was an old kernel and this was new hardware. If you have new hardware, use a new kernel.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

it does not sound like its the new version that is better for them. more like an older version was better, newer is worse.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

This Fedora version was a year+ ago. Even on 7.0 wifi is unusable on my machines if I have 6ghz enabled.