On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM Ceppo <ce...@oziosi.org> wrote: > > I've been using my D-Link DWA-160 network adapter for around two years > without any issue for a couple of years. Some weeks ago however, it > started misbehaving. > After I use it as usual for a seemingly random amount of time (but see > below), spanning from a few minutes to several hours, I suddenly get > disconnected from wifi. After that, if I try to connect again with nmcli > my computer freezes and I can only force it off. However, if I unplug > the adapter, plug it in again and then reconnect with nmcli everything > works fine - until I get disconnected again.
D-Link recommends retiring the DWA-160, and replacing it with a device that receives firmware updates. See <https://legacy.us.dlink.com/pages/product.aspx?id=ac0f57d75ea14bc79f5d8cd384bff31f>. If I read between the lines correctly, it sounds like D-Link knows there are problems but will not fix them. Instead, D-Link takes the opportunity to sell you additional products. > At first I didn't bother to even look for a solution, since this > happened only once in a few days. However, now it happens several times > a day, and most often when I reach high download speeds. Anything around > 2 MiB/s for more than a handful of seconds seems to be a granted > trigger. > I couldn't find any useful information online and I know nothing about > wifi hardware or software. Can anyone help troubleshooting this? Jeff
