HP Aero WiFi unreliable

[HughR]

My Aero's WiFi is unreliable.  It isn't even reliable in its unreliability.

It is unreliable in Windows and in Linux (the system I use most of the time).

I have made it reliable in Linux by telling the driver to avoid sleep modes.

There is a posting here that says something similar might work for Windows: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Wireless-and-Networking/HP-Pavilion-Aero-13-disconnecting-fro...

This seems to point to a problem, but it isn't a solution, it is a work around.  It leaves the system with impaired ability to power down when idle.  Is there a better solution?  Is the flaw in the WiFi card?  Note: my wife's Aero doesn't have this problem so it must be partly hardware.

Note: I'm typing this on my Aero, under Windows, but I have to use a wired internet connection!

Here is what I wrote in another forum about making WiFi work in Linux:

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Earlier I mentioned WiFi woes on my new Aero, but not my wife's older one.

I've figured out a work-around for Linux. I did so with the help of issues in the github repo for realtek wifi drivers https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88/issues/61

As root, create a file /etc/modprobe.d/50-rtw89.conf (the name is kind of arbitrary) with the following contents:

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        options rtw89_core disable_ps_mode=y
        options rtw89_pci disable_aspm_l1=y
        options rtw89_pci disable_aspm_l1ss=y

Then reboot. This worked for my computer but isn't needed by my wife's computer. Each line shuts off another bit of the power-saving that the driver tries. Each line is needed.