BOINC again !? -- I give up.

[Timothy Murphy]

Mike Evans wrote:

> For machines with a wired connection I have been in the habit of
> disabling NM and using the good old network service.  Works like a dream
> and doesn't need tampering with.  You can do that through the
> Admin->services gui if you don't like fiddling with the links in the
> init directories.

But most people nowadays use a WiFi connection, at least on laptops,
so the advice to use "the good old network service" is not much help.
as the network service is much, much worse than NM with WiFi
in my experience.

Both are completely undocumented, so one is in the world of magic.