Bug ID 923387
Summary Wireless doesn't stay connected in hotels
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version 13.2
Hardware Other
OS openSUSE 13.2
Status NEW
Severity Major
Priority P5 - None
Component Network
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter munguanaweza@netzero.net
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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Blocker ---

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/37.0
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The wireless system doesn't stay connected in various hotels around the world. 
In some hotels, there is no problem and the wireless will stay connected.  In
most hotels, the opensuse wireless will be cut off from the hotel wireless
network withing about 10 minutes.  The only way to get it to reconnect is to
restart the operating system for about another 10 minutes of connection.  While
the opensuse wireless is connected, the wireless transfer rate of bytes/sec
gets slower and slower.

To contrast this with windows, it will remain connected without problem
indefinitely.  Windows also will not slow down its bytes/sec transfer rate over
time, and the general transfer rate is higher in windows than in opensuse.

I have had this issue on two different laptops, using opensuse 12.1 through
13.2.  I compare these opensuse versions to both windows 7 and 8 on these two
laptops.  

I am writing this from the hotel Pullman Bercy in Paris, France, where I am
having this issue.  But please don't think that this is just an isolated
incident, I have this issue in hotels all over the world.  I travel for a
living and find this problem in hotels all over the world for several years
running.  I have tried to resolve this various times on the opensuse mailing
list, and also have tried to work with various hotel tech support services to
find a clue to resolve this, without success.  Many of the hotels that I stay
in while travelling used to have wired connections and I was able to bypass the
wireless problem, but they have been gradually eliminated in favor of wireless
systems and this problem has become a major issue and a great annoyance.  I
would very much appreciate if you could fix this problem!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start up the computer
2.Connect to the hotel network
3. Soon the wireless connection will reduce to no transfer of data.
Actual Results:  
I couldn't continue using opensuse to connect to the internet, and I have to
switch to windows.

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to stay connected to the internet via opensuse wifi
without issue.


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