Wifi signal is poor due to autoconnect priority

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My laptop has windows 11 and fedora 38, the wifi signal in windows is very good but in fedora it is poor.

Is it possible to increase the power of the network card?
The network card is “Qualcomm QCNFA765”

Thanks in advance for your help.

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I would guess this may be a driver related issue with the adapter.
Please post the output of inxi -Nxx so we can see the info about the adapter there.
Also the output of ip address show.

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Thanks for yout reply.

These are the results:

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ inxi -Nxx
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm QCNFA765 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn
driver: ath11k_pci v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 17cb:1103

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ ip address show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:d5:7a:df:97:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.100.47/24 brd 192.168.100.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp1s0
valid_lft 259172sec preferred_lft 259172sec
inet6 2806:2f0:9c41:fc16:2e13:30d8:6010:37d6/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
valid_lft 259175sec preferred_lft 172775sec
inet6 fe80::6502:813:b24e:6d21/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

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In some instances it has been found that having IPv6 enabled causes problems with speed on wifi connections and that disabling IPv6 on the system solves that issue.

You might try disabling IPv6 and see if there is a difference.

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Thanks Jeff

I disabled ipv6 but there is no changes in the signal quality

2: wlp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:d5:7a:df:97:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.100.47/24 brd 192.168.100.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp1s0
valid_lft 258855sec preferred_lft 258855sec

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Wifi systems can adjust power to the minimum needed to maintain a reliable connection. Are you encountering network slowdowns in linux? How are you measuring signal strength? Can windows wifi connect at a greater distance than linux? Does you access point support beam forming?

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I know what’s going on, I have a modem and a wifi repeater, my laptop is close to the modem and far from the repeater but it is connecting to the repeater. I turned off the repeater and the signal is now high.
I must force the connection to the modem instead the repeater.

My SSID is Totalplay-6AAA

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ nmcli d wifi
IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY
04:F3:52:33:BC:7B – Infra 2 130 Mbit/s 90 ▂▄▆█ –
04:F3:52:33:BC:78 Totalplay-6AAA Infra 2 130 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
04:F3:52:33:BC:7A – Infra 2 130 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
04:F3:52:33:BC:7E – Infra 149 270 Mbit/s 80 ▂▄▆_ WPA2
04:F3:52:33:BC:7F – Infra 149 270 Mbit/s 77 ▂▄▆_ –
04:F3:52:33:BC:7C Totalplay-6AAA-5G Infra 149 270 Mbit/s 75 ▂▄▆_ WPA2
B0:EC:DD:C1:46:1D – Infra 8 130 Mbit/s 64 ▂▄▆_ –
B0:EC:DD:C1:46:21 – Infra 149 270 Mbit/s 62 ▂▄▆_ –
B0:EC:DD:C1:46:1C Totalplay-6AAA Infra 8 130 Mbit/s 60 ▂▄▆_ WPA2

  •   B0:EC:DD:C1:46:22  Totalplay-6AAA              Infra  149   270 Mbit/s  59      ▂▄▆_  WPA2      
  B0:EC:DD:C1:46:20  Totalplay-6AAA-5G           Infra  149   270 Mbit/s  57      ▂▄▆_  WPA2      
  34:71:46:07:60:4F  Casa @lcaraz M@rquez        Infra  3     270 Mbit/s  49      ▂▄__  WPA1 WPA2
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It’s done, the signal is strong.

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ nmcli -f NAME,UUID,AUTOCONNECT,AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY c
NAME               UUID                                  AUTOCONNECT  AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY 
Totalplay-6AAA-5G  7394ce0e-7805-4ab9-83ca-9d4830124e3a  sí           0                    
lo                 1df824f5-cc1c-4719-946a-9e6c266e5f3d  no           0                    
Totalplay-6AAA     8a91ceb8-10ea-4cdf-998b-fa0f6d2fc1eb  sí           0  

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ nmcli connection modify "Totalplay-6AAA-5G" connection.autoconnect-priority 10

[rickcc@fedora ~]$ nmcli -f NAME,UUID,AUTOCONNECT,AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY c
NAME               UUID                                  AUTOCONNECT  AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY 
Totalplay-6AAA-5G  7394ce0e-7805-4ab9-83ca-9d4830124e3a  sí           10                   
lo                 1df824f5-cc1c-4719-946a-9e6c266e5f3d  no           0                    
Totalplay-6AAA     8a91ceb8-10ea-4cdf-998b-fa0f6d2fc1eb  sí           0

Thanks all for your kindly help!

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