Anyone else experience flakey Edimax antennas?

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- Charles Cossé
  
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9 years ago

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 7:55 PM

Hi, I have purchased a few Edimax nano antennas over the past couple years. I use them with a RPi model B running Gentoo Linux and hostapd to implemen t a WiFi hotspot. I don't know if it's Bluetooth, HostAPD or what, but som e of them are just plain flakey ... requiring me to restart hostapd and re- connect whatever it is that got knocked-off.

Searching here turned-up only 3 Edimax-related posts. Has anyone else expe rienced this? And do you know what the root problem is?

Thanks!

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- Michael Vogel
  
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9 years ago

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 3:19 PM

If this is the Edimax 8192cu, disabling power management will help to some extent.

File "/etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf": options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0

It will still lose it's connection every few days, though, but it's way better than before (x days vs. x minutes).

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9 years ago

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 11:03 PM

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- Björn Lundin
  
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9 years ago

Sat, Feb 7, 2015 12:41 PM

I've tried useing bluetooth on Linux, and on a rasbberry pi, and I gave up. Connection broke after a couple of hours, in best case.

I had a tcl-script that read from /dev/rcomm-whatever and the device was lost - with no reason. An arduino was sending temperature readings every minute via a HC-06, and the scrip inserted into a postgresql database.

I finally found my old ppc-osx to be stable and has been for months now. I also tried on windows, and steady as a rock, but the mac was always on anyway.

So bluetooth and linux have been - for me - a really disappointing experience.

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