Well, there a desktop PC, a laptop, and possibly an old Chromebook that I’m considering…

Whoa, this sounds like a really cool project. I think I would enjoy doing this. Thank you for telling me about it.

That sounds cool. So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed? Just, like cobbled together resources to run stuff?

This might be a little advanced for me at the moment.

Haven’t heard of it before. Is it a distro?

Fitting that it’s being offered by The Penguin himself.

Hmm, I may edit this gif for a meme post.

big exaggerated sigh

“…aaalways read the hardware specs, Mr. Bluewing, sir.”

This would be a really interesting rabbit hole to go down…

Amazing. There’s a level of stubborn ingenuity that I can appreciate.

It’s too far from the router right now, but I have some options.

I needed to have the new adapter plugged in to use a tool from the manufacturer that is supposed to detect your adapter and install the most up to date driver for you, but of course you have to be online, so I was using the old semi-broken adapter and had both plugged in and connected to my router at the same time.

It seems jank, but it made me wonder what would happen if I just left both connected forever. Would it stay seamlessly connected as long as they both don’t drop at the same time? Lol

This is my jam. I really enjoy having a steep hill to climb.

If I catch the new one doing it, this is going to be the first thing I try. Thanks

Well, the PC is far from the router, but someone mentioned setting up a WiFi extender that has an ethernet port, and that doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea.

That was a perfectly reasonable response.

It did seem pretty consistent timing-wise. This is very possible.

Pop OS. It seems to be working for now, but I think my next step if it happens again will be to just use ethernet and call it a day.

So far… nope. I need to test it some more, but I’m just waiting for it to start happening again.

It sounds like you’re not alone, and it’s what I was trying to do too! I just didn’t pay close enough attention to the specs on my new adapter, lol

Lesson learned.

No, very old. A lot of the hardware is from 2013.

Realtek. I was reading that many Realtek chipsets cause intermittent wifi drops, and that since they’re pretty inexpensive, it’s simpler to just get one that works. So, I went with another company that advertises as Linux compatible out of the box, plugged it in, checked it with ‘lsusb’, and saw the exact same Realtek chipset that my old one has.

Ooh, thanks!