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Eightie7

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[SOLVED] Network Manager Wifi connected but all connections timeout

Occasionally, I will be browsing the internet and suddenly all websites will no longer load, and other applications such as discord will not load either. Running sudo pacman -Syu will get stuck trying to synchronise the package databases.

This occurs very unpredictably. About 2 months occur this was a regular occurrence, happening everyday or even multiple times per day. It then only happened about once a week, but now it has returned to happening daily.

My laptop (A Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 13) only really connects to 3 things: my home wifi, my iPhone hotspot, or my university wifi. This issue only occurs on my home wifi.

Checking nmtui when this occurs, it still lists my connection as activated, and waybar still shows the wifi icon. Deactivating and reactivating the connection will sometimes fix the issue, but only for 1-10 minutes. A similar thing happens when running sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager, the wifi will reconnect and websites will start loading again, but only for a short period of time.

Running ping ping.archlinux.org works:
https://privatebin.net/?7fe93ebc918bfc8 … XkE88hdEXp

Here's the output of sudo journalctl -b for the 2 minutes before I noticed it stopped working:
https://privatebin.net/?3707e49821e5c47 … rc3a8i9FUz

Apologies if I haven't done something right, I've only been using arch for a few months and (thankfully) hadn't had to make any forum posts to fix any issues before.

Thanks to anyone who responds!

Last edited by Eightie7 (2026-04-30 11:33:07)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager Wifi connected but all connections timeout

Apr 29 19:19:30 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: Trying to associate with d0:db:b7:9f:33:e6 (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=5180 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:06 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: SME: Trying to authenticate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bc (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=5180 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:06 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: Trying to associate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bc (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=5180 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:17 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: SME: Trying to authenticate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bb (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=2462 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:17 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: Trying to associate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bb (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=2462 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:45 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: SME: Trying to authenticate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bc (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=5180 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:46 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: Trying to associate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bc (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=5180 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:53 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: SME: Trying to authenticate with d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bb (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=2462 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:54 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: SME: Trying to authenticate with d0:db:b7:9f:33:e5 (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=2437 MHz)
Apr 29 19:20:54 archlinux wpa_supplicant[1005]: wlp0s20f3: Trying to associate with d0:db:b7:9f:33:e5 (SSID='Aussie Broadband 9222' freq=2437 MHz)

Your roaming around, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … ts_(Wi-Fi)
The 5GHz connection at  d0:db:b7:b3:4c:bc seems too unstable.

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Eightie7

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Re: [SOLVED] Network Manager Wifi connected but all connections timeout

I tried what the wiki suggested and that seemed to work, so thank you!