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fuf
Sep 12, 2004

haha
Can someone point me in the right direction re fixing wireless networking?

My Thinkpad T440s has an Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 and the download speeds are much slower over wifi than over ethernet.

The firmware is up to date (iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode).
Using wavemon I can see that the signal strength to router is hovering around 100%.
Using mtr I sometimes see a lot of packet loss between my laptop and the router, but other times no packet loss at all.

I don't really know where to start. I guess I should add the interface to /etc/networking/interfaces and configure it manually? But do I first need to disable whatever is currently handling networking (I'm on Ubuntu 14.04)? Should I install wicd? Basically I don't know how to start breaking things down so I can start again from scratch.

e: ugh it turned out to be my wifi extender that was the bottleneck.

fuf fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Aug 21, 2014

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fuf
Sep 12, 2004

haha

gggiiimmmppp posted:

Specifically, I want to be able to define arbitrary regions that aren't necessarily halves and quarters of the screen and snap windows to them by dragging and keybind. Any suggestions?

There's a bunch of tiling window managers (i3, awesome) that'll do this, but they're pretty hardcore to set up and learn in my experience.

I have an issue: if I change my laptop display brightness (thinkpad t440s) and then switch to another user, I can't change the brightness anymore. I have to switch back to the first user to set brightness. What the gently caress?

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