Hardy dropping wireless connection


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Hi all,

A few days ago I decided to install Ubuntu again, so I installed Hardy (8.04). Everything is working fine but at times (always when Transmission is on) wireless just drops, the network manager still registers it as connected, and if I click connection info it tells me my connection speed is 1mb/s. Nothing will load after this has happened and it forces me to do a reboot to fix it. I have Vista installed on the same computer and it does not have this issue, so it must be related to Hardy. Does anyone else have this problem and is there a solution because it gets really annoying.

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If you're referring to Transmission as the Bit torrent application, this is a known problem with wireless. (also on Windows systems as well)

There really is no known fix. You can Google and people have suggestions you can try but the most you can do is reset the router whenever the connection drops. :no:

edit: Apparently Bit torrent is flooding the router with alot of requests (obviously) and it causes it to lockup/reset/etc.

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Oh, thats too bad :( it seemed like such a nice app.

Yeah. When I was on Ubuntu I also used Transmission. My wireless kept dropping and it also did the same thing on the Windows partition. And I know for a fact its not my system or devices because a quick Google search displays alot of people with similar problems and also I did it at a chicks house and her wireless dropped when I downloaded a Need For Speed demo through uTorrent. :no:

Note: She has "BOOST" also....for Optimum Online and we maxed her connection out and the router just locked up completely.

lmfao :no:

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It's not transmission (or at least, I dont think it is:p). I have the same mobo, and I have the same problem. And all the others have the same problem, lol. There's a problem with the rtl8187 module. There is, or are, patched versions of this module, but I think they were from the 'gutsy' era (apparently the problem was much worse before they updated it in hardy). Anyway, the problem is not entirely solved and I think nobody knows why lol.

It doesnt happen that often to me.

rmmod rtl8187
modprobe rtl8187
/etc/init.d/networking restart

Whenever the wifi drops, try those commands in that order (using sudo with all of them). That will bring the wifi back up.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/182473

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