Article 5T32R Balky Wifi connect using Brave, but Firefox works

Balky Wifi connect using Brave, but Firefox works

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jude7
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Running Mint 18.2 (a bit old, I know) Connecting a Dell i7 P66 laptop to a public WiFi network, I get increasingly balky connection behavior. Like Mint is trying to morph into Vista...... (Yikes!!!)

I had been having WiFi issues, like the bar graph indicating zero signal strength while the pop-up list of available connections gives 80% - to - 100% signal, while the connection may or may not be just fine(?!?)

Sometimes a restart seemed to fix the problem, other times it had no effect.

Lately, it has become impossible to connect with Brave browser; I tried clearing the browsing history,thinking some cookie, or the sheer congestion might be responsible, that made no difference.

I also tried connecting to different networks available at a mall, all attempts got the same result: Brave would not connect, and I'd get a white screen, with "connecting" in the lower left corner - as if the process was stuck half-way through.

I used the "ROUTE" command via the Terminal, and entered into the address/search bar what GENMASK listed: some variation on " 255.255.0.0 " or "255.255.255.0"

So finally,I tried Firefox,and it connected on the first try. I know this one try is not enough to prove anything.

I have tried to update Brave, but I can't get it to do anything. In the past, this was not a problem.

Any/all ideas, info welcome!latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=fbiK81V_Seo:9GGHUAL3y3Q:F7zBnMy latest?i=fbiK81V_Seo:9GGHUAL3y3Q:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=fbiK81V_Seo:9GGHUAL3y3Q:gIN9vFw
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