Intermittentent Wifi Connection performance problems with AMD 13 (first gen AMD)

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hello, not sure what all information ya’ll need to debug this, but I’ve determine that my Computer’s WIFI is having performance problems when streaming games to my laptop from my desktop.

(The moonlight-qt (client) <-> Sunshine (host) setup)

When I plug ethernet into the laptop, I have 0 problems, no lag, no stutters, etc.

The problem with the wifi seems to be ~ every 5 minutes or so.

I’ve seen these related posts / threads about my problem, and it seems nothing helps

wondering if anyone else has both ran in to this, and known what to do about it? I think my problem may be related to power-save features – but I can’t seem to be able to turn them off. For gaming / streaming from the PC, ya don’t really want power saving until you’re done playing. :sweat_smile:

Here is my wifi card info:

❯ lspci
# ...
01:00.0 Network controller: 
  MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter

❯ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlp1s0    IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"[....]"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.765 GHz  Access Point: [....]   
          Bit Rate=866.7 Mb/s   Tx-Power=3 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=60/70  Signal level=-50 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:3  Invalid misc:164   Missed beacon:0
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Due to all the issues people seem to have with that card, I switched mine to an intel AX210 and everything works great. I never even powered it up before i switched. I just put in the ax210 when i put the laptop together

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Moonlight is known for devs not correcting known bugs and not respecting their users. Maybe it is due to a bug in Moonlight, I would investigate that if I were you.

Also yeah, AX210 and AX200 are way more stable and powerful than the default AMD card on linux, though I understand framework for going 100% AMD. That 30€ fix might just be all you need. If it still is an issue, then dicth moonlight for steam remote play, parsec or anydesk. They are way better.

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Well, since there is no problem over Ethernet, the problem can’t really be moonlight.

Are the AX wifi cards the best we can get? I’ve never bought a wifi card before, and i wonder if there are any bells and whistles i should look for

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The AX210 only goes up to 160MHz wifi 6E, which gets you the 6ghz band, but it is slower than wifi 7 which increases max channel width to 320MHz and adds some cool new features like Multi-link operation. The Intel wifi 7 card is known to cause the AMD board to fail to boot, so I wouldn’t recommend getting that (BE200). There is a Qualcomm wifi 7 card that allegedly works with the AMD board, but I’ve never used it so I can’t personally vouch for it.

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Got a link to the AX210?
or maybe eall known-to-work (well with moonlight?) cards?

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Framework sells the AX210 in their marketplace

And this is Intel’s AX210 ark page (tech specs)

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It can, wifi obviously introduces latency and jittering which moonlight might not handle well.

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it’s too consistently periodic though. and, as mentioned in my links, I can stream at 80+ mbps over wifi no problem, except for the same interrmittent issue that happens at lower mbps. I believe this eliminates the possibility of the network being the problem – and moonlight isn’t going to care what network device it’s attached to – that’s beneath it (literally!)