[PSA] Fixing Wifi Reliability

EK13@lemmy.world to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz – 24 points –

This is probably old news to most people but I'm posting here in case it helps anyone else! Turns out there's a power management setting you can disable that really improved the wireless reliability for me.

You first have to enable Developer Mode in Settings > System. Then you should see a new menu right at the bottom of the settings list called Developer. Under Miscellaneous you should see the option Enable Wifi Power Management.

Turning this off completely solved the problems I was having with Wifi being either really slow or dropping out completely to the point where it was almost unusable.

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Holy shit, thank you. I've been occasionally toggling the wi-fi on and off to fix it, basically dropping the connection!

I've had this disabled for months but I still have frequent wifi connectivity issues

Wow, this is one of the reasons I went for the new deck, the wifi and Bluetooth were not great