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Registered: 2012-05-27

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Wireless Connection Slows to a Crawl After a Few Searches.

Hello Arch Forums. I have been experiencing some recent slow wireless problems. When I first start up the internet works fun but after just a few searches it seems the connection slows to a crawl and then fails entirely. I have been using Network Manager and it hasn't given me any problems.

I have an Asus laptop with a Realtek adapter:

02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)

It seems that there is no RTL8188CE module in the Arch Repositories so the module that is used is RTL8192CE

lsmod:

rtl8192ce              50213  0 
rtlwifi                62133  1 rtl8192ce
kvm                   384721  1 kvm_intel
rtl8192c_common        36320  1 rtl8192ce

I decided to try loading a different module. The rtl8192cu to see if that gave me any better results. So I created a rtl8192ce.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d and blacklisted it. The created a rtl8192cu.conf file in /etc/modules-load.d to load this module on boot instead. When I booted up the computer though I had no internet connection at all. Obviously I loaded the module incorrectly somehow. I'm not even sure if using a different module is the way to go. I would rather not switch to wicd because it seems to drop connections very often with the rtl8192ce module. Should I switch to netcfg and configure the wireless manually?