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How to disable wifi power save to prevent disconnects

This article is at: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-disable-wifi-power-save-to-prevent-disconnects/933

By Petrakis

I saw some posts about how weak the wifi is, and indeed it is… It kept losing signal and closing my ssh so I decided to try an old trick of mine. (Which happens to be an issue in all the Single Board Computers i have tried)

Since I disabled the chipset power saving mode I haven´t had disconnects, so It might be useful to you.


iw wlan0 set power_save off

I have to add that not only doesn´t disconnect anymore but it increased the speed of transfering files too.

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