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Wifi is generally going to be slower than a wired connection. Wifi is
subject to device contention as various devices sharing the channel each
struggle for bandwidth. There's also, sometimes, the issue of shared
channel interference if there are a lot of wireless access points around
which will cause some access points to back off and reduce data rates. Wifi
is often just slower: [Divide roughly by 10 for Mbit to Mbyte conversion] -
54Mb wifi (best case) == 5.4MB per second. 100Mb wired (best case) == 10MB
with no device contention. Many wifi routers now have 1Gb wired links (best
case) == 100MB.

Public wifi portals with a password - you're on your own - they all work
differently.

For the future: You may find it useful to use Wikipedia / a web search
engine to read information on some of this before you come and ask
questions on a mailing list. If you can show that you've done some reading
/ tried something out for yourself before asking a question when you don't
understand, it can help other people help you more easily.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html may be useful.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy C.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:21 AM Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> For some reason wifi is too slow or connection gets interrupted or
> downloads get stuck. When switching to wireful connection problem seems
> resolved.
>
> Also on a few cases when connecting through public wireless with a
> password, after switching off the wireless connection the connection
> refused to come back. On another occasion, the gui wireless menu did not
> work. command nmcli wireless radio on did not work either. Any ideas why
> that might happen
>

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question concerning wifi and connection Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2020-07-26 12:30 +0200
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