I'm on a RPi B+, with an USB Wifi adapter, TP-LINK TL-WN823N, wich uses a rtl8192cu chipset, and is a N adapter. I have also a TP-LINK N router.
I was using XBian 1.0RC3, and I recently upgraded; they switched to rolling updates, so I received a lot of new packages from the main Debian repo.
Since the update, the Wifi performance are greatly worsen:
- if I use the RPi with a few inch from the router, the performace is great, with ~72M rate and 70/70 signal quality
- if I use the RPi in my living room, where it was before, the wifi connection lags and sometimes goes down for a few seconds.
I used sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M
to force 11g connection, and it got better, but still I have some lag.
Current sudo iwconfig wlan0
output:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Airbase"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: E8:94:F6:6A:DD:C4
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=54/70 Signal level=-56 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:20752 Missed beacon:0
As you can see, 54M rate is forced, and a lot of invalid packets are listed: Invalid misc:20752
QUESTION: What can I do to investigate and improve the connection? What should I look at, that could be changed by the upgrade?