Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Mar 18 06:41:51 UTC 2014


On 18/03/14 19:37, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/18/14 14:08, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> Since I don't use the KDE desktop (I use Mate) I would presume that the forgoing is of no relevance to me.  (Unless I were to switch over to KDE, which I am not inclined to do on the basis of "Better the devil you know ....)
>>
>> This is an academic question only in my case, since I have WiFi working from a USB plugin device with no problem.
>
> Yes, the example I gave was KDE specific.
>
> However, I believe you can do something similar in MATE.    (I'm not a MATE user and just played with it a bit on a system with only one WiFi interface).
>
> You can create a connection for each interface/device.  In the connection editor you select the tab "WiFi" for each connection you've created and choose the individual "Device MAC Address" (one for each interface).  Then you can choose which one to connect to.
>
> You can even go so far as to use the "General" tab and tell one to connect automatically and the other not.


Thanks.  I shall file this away for future reference.

cheers,

Rolf



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