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Realtek RTL8723BE Wi-Fi incredibly weak

I have a HP 14-AN001NA laptop. It came with Windows 10 installed on which the Wi-Fi worked fine anywhere in the house. However I removed Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.04 instead and since I have had terrible Wi-Fi anywhere aside from about…
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Realtek driver RTL8723BE not working in Ubuntu 16.04 (kernel 4.4)

I upgraded from Ubuntu 15.10 (on which the driver had no issues whatsoever), to the LTS version 16.04 a day back. I knew I would have to reinstall the wifi driver for my card(Realtek RTL8723BE), and as before I compiled the code from…
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Slow speed on Hotspot created from Ubuntu 16.04 with RTL8723BE Wireless Network Adapter

History I ran into a weird problem yesterday(on 13 Jan 2018). My Ubuntu was not able to get strong signals of Wifi. I once encountered this problem before and was able to fix it using this post. The solution was to make a config file as follows -…
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Inconsistent connection and super slow speed with RTL8723BE

I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop with a RTL8723BE adapter and the Wi-Fi is really spotty. Sometimes available wireless networks won't even show up in the menu, and other times just the network in my household will show up and just barely…
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Wi-Fi doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (RTL8723BE)

When I installed Ubuntu for the first time I had to do some work with the terminal because my Wi-Fi reception was lower than on Windows: echo "options rtl8723be ips=0 fwlps=0 ant_sel=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf After updating…
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Wifi driver hard blocked after suspend - Airplane mode in Ubuntu 18.04

I am using HP Pavilion. The wifi switches off and the Airplane mode is switched ON after a suspend. It prompts me to use the Hardware Switch to disable it. But that does not work. From what I have observed, after this happens, even if I plug in an…
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rtl8723be drops wifi connection on hp pavilion notebook ubuntu 16.04

I have recently bougth a HP Pavilion Notebook and performed dual boot with ubuntu 14.04 lts and noted that no wifi networks on first boot. I've searched a lot (really) and did lots of stuff (installed lwfinger drivers, installed…
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Airplane mode key (Fn + F12) not working in HP ab027tx running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

The 'Airplane Mode' key on my laptop is not working in ubuntu since I have dual booted my laptop on windows and Ubuntu. Wifi hardware is Realtek RTL8723BE. Please help.
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Wifi signal strength weak on Ubuntu 18.04 with rtl8723be

I have the Realtek rtl8723be driver on my HP-Pavillion Notebook. While installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS through plug-n-play option, I tried the following commands before actual installation: sudo modprobe -r rtl8723be sudo modprobe rtl8723be…
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Slow speed on Hotspot created from Ubuntu 18.04 with RTL8723BE Wireless Network Adapter

This question is duplicate of this question. I am running 18.04 and having same problems as that of the linked question that is my hotspot created by linux gives very slow internet speed on my mobile. The linked question did not have any answer…
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Weak WiFi signal in Xubuntu 18.04 on HP Stream 13, rtl8723be (NOT antenna selection, it does nothing)

edit: Two solutions have been mentioned but don't work for me: Change antenna selection on wifi driver. This does not work for my problem. It seems it used to work for 16.04 LTS but that fix apparently got broken in 18.04. This is a new install…
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Wifi networks not found ubuntu 18.04 with rtl8723be

I had recently updated to Ubuntu 18.04. All was working fine until today morning when I was not able to connect to the wifi. When I try to scan for networks it shows no networks found. When I run iwlist wlo1 scan I get the following results: wlo1 …
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How to make the effect of these two commands permanent?

How to make the effect of these commands permanent so that it persists even after rebooting? sudo modprobe -rv rtl8723be sudo modprobe -v rtl8723be ant_sel=2 Note: echo "options rtl8723be ant_sel=2" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/50-rtl8723be.conf does…
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RTL8723BE Bluetooth not working

RTL8723BE Bluetooth not working. Specifically, the driver cannot be detected at all: hciconfig -a returns absolutely nothing. hcitool dev just returns Devices: (nothing) Already tried using the solution in this question: RTL8723BE Bluetooth does…
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Realtek RTL8723BE weak wifi signal and disconnects

Model: HP 15-af030ur inside Realtek RTL8723B *ware: 2 years have problems under Linux Ubuntu 14.04LTS -> 16.04LTS -> 17.04 Gnome 3.24 wayland Problem: weak wifi signal problem in ubuntu based linux distributions, but work well with windows try all…
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