Wifi is virtually useless

Gsav69 · November 17, 2017 at 2:11 PM

Hey guys. Kinda new in here and kinda stay in the background to learn. I upgraded a pi3 to the most recent version and the wifi signal drops intermittently, the box sometimes doesn't recognize the wifi at all and the box is virtually useless. Should i be going back or is there a fix? Thanks in advance for your time and patience here.

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**lrusak** · November 17, 2017 at 5:59 PM Official Post

The wifi chip on the RPi3 really isn't meant for sustained video playback. Use a proper wireless dongle if you want decent wifi.

**Iridium** · November 17, 2017 at 6:20 PM Official Post

Are you saying that before "I upgraded a pi3 to the most recent version" that everything worked fine? If so then there might be an issue - if not then:

As @lrusak mentioned, the RPI3 wifi is not the best in the world, it has a very SMALL antenna and thus location is critical.

I bought a cheap £8 wifi (2.4/5Ghz) dongle from amazon and it worked out of the box and I've not had any issues

grom_e30 · November 18, 2017 at 1:04 PM

or use a cable instead of wifi