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    Easy way to disable wifi on Hometroller SEL?

    The wifi performance of the hometroller sel seems erratic since I installed a asus ac-5300 tri band router.

    I would like to turn off the wifi and connect with ethernet.

    Any recommendations on a quick way to turn off the wifi?

    Thanks

    #2
    Hi wb-avl,

    First connect your ethernet, so you can log in using ssh (which you should be able to do over wifi right now)
    Make sure you can ssh over wifi and ethernet. They should have 2 different IP addresses.
    Then use the ifconfig command at your command line prompt.
    You should see the eth0 or the ethernet IP and the wlan0 or wireless IP
    Something like this (my wifi is off):
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    homeseer@homeseer-sel:~$ ifconfig
    enp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet 10.0.0.231 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.255.255.255
    inet6 fe80::1e1b:dff:fe86:c0b5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
    ether 1c:1b:0d:86:c0:b5 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
    RX packets 36176596 bytes 3325241773 (3.3 GB)
    RX errors 0 dropped 305 overruns 0 frame 0
    TX packets 36224672 bytes 14488381569 (14.4 GB)
    TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

    lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
    loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
    RX packets 149868672 bytes 58670094902 (58.6 GB)
    RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
    TX packets 149868672 bytes 58670094902 (58.6 GB)
    TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
    _________________________________________

    Then use the following command:
    ifconfig wlan0 down
    Confirm wifi is off by typing "ifconfig" again

    This will turn off wifi until the next reboot.
    Later you can decide to turn it off permanently if you want

    These are linux commands.

    Bruce

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      #3
      Thanks for your help!

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        #4
        The system should user the ethernet interface over the wireless, so I would just leave both on.

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          #5
          Originally posted by bsobel View Post
          The system should user the ethernet interface over the wireless, so I would just leave both on.
          I tried this initially and it did not go well. Maybe I should have given it more time or another reboot.

          With the wifi off everything is working great.

          Thanks

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