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outdoorsnz

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#319273 8-Apr-2025 12:33
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For me, onboard RPI 5 wifi is terrible. It constantly stops and is unreliable.

 

So I purchased TP link Archer T3U Plus and this worked mostly perfectly until the recent RPI firmware update broke the firmware-realtek driver etc.

 

So just now I installed this driver:

 

https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver

 

And we are working again!

 

You can disable onboard wifi by:

 

sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt

 

adding dtoverlay=disable-wifi


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outdoorsnz

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  #3362263 9-Apr-2025 11:50
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Ah I spoke to soon! You learn something new everyday :-)

 

I discovered that my pi5 firmware was out of date quite a bit! I wrongly assume that normal updating did the firmware's.

 

So sudo rpi-update broke my TP-Link installed driver, but fixed the onboard wifi problems. I'm now getting around 160 Bbps whereas before lucky to get 20.


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