ESSID is Extended Service Set Identification, mostly used as broadcast Network name for a WiFi hotspot.
Questions tagged [essid]
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How can I force a connection to a specific WiFi network using nmcli?
NetworkManager is often extremely slow to scan and detect new networks with my wireless card (rtl8xxxu driver).
Using the Network Manager GUI I can "force" a connection to a specific wireless network using "Connect to a Hidden Network". Even if…
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Two networks with the same ESSID, how do I blacklist one or force the other?
I'm here at Starbucks in Kingwood, Texas at the intersection of Kingwood Drive, and West Lake Houston. I'm in a shopping outlet. In the same shopping center just 150 feet away is an ATT Store.
The problem I'm encountering is both the Starbucks, and…
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How to quick select which access point (or BSSID) to use for a given wireless network (aka SSID)?
I use NetworkManager with a WLAN that has two access points (same SSID).
Is there a quick way to switch between
auto selection
force to connect to one specific access point
force usage of the other access point
Command line solution is also fine…
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WiFi how to automatically connect back to a preferred SSID when available
Since wifi-radar is not yet available on ubuntu 20.04, I go to explain my need
I have two WiFi networks, the main WiFi has SSID Main
the other is a sort of backup and it has a low signal and poor performance, let's call its SSID Emerg
Sometime the…
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Wifi networks not detected by Lubuntu
Yesterday I wanted to connect to a wifi network. The "network" icon in the bottom bar was a square and nothing happened when I clicked on it. In "Preferences" I found "Advanced network configuration". I clicked the '+' sign at the bottom and…
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My Wifi Card is not called wlan0 but wlp18s0b1, how then to configure my Ubuntu Server?
after some serious digging I finally realised that the problem with setting up my Ubuntu server via wifi is not working because wlan0 is not configured but it turns out that wlp18s0b1 is!? When I run iwconfig wlp18s0b1 I get the following:
IEEE…
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Force USB wlan ifname keep starting from 0
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I have a NUC running on 20.04 with an internal WiFi chip. Since I need to connect to external antenna so I have added a USB WiFi adaptor.
What problem I am having:
The USB WiFi interface most of the time is named with wlan1 after reboot…
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Why doesn't my computer see a Wifi that my phone does?
I have access to several Wifi networks from my place and even though I can often connect to the one I need for printing purposes, that's not always the case, because my system (Ubuntu 16.04) doesn't see it and says it's out of range, even though my…
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