My laptop has an atheros card and never has this issue sitting on the same desk. Router is in the same room, both devices running arch.
I suspect that part of the issue is the broadcom card is showing up as multiple devices. I see my access points twice one for each device (wlp7s0, wlp0s20u3). The shorter one can't actually connect and I haven't been able to figure out why it is showing up. It didn't use to have this problem, but started a while ago and I ignored it.
I am using broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-26 along with networkmanager-qt in kde. Tried setting the BSSID and restricting the SSID to the wlp0s20u3 with no improvement. Any ideas on this?
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