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by imafish 3599 days ago
I own the Dell XPS 15 FHD and have experienced same issues. However, mostly I do not notice them. Have not experienced the random wakeups.

Another issue is the crappy broadcom wifi card that shipped with it. Wifi connection would just randomly disappear and only return after multiple retry/reboot combinations. Replaced it with an intel card and haven't had any problems since.

I do like the laptop but do not believe these problems should exist on a laptop with such a high pricetag.

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You'd think they could build a laptop wifi card that didn't totally suck, but I've been through a half-dozen different laptops, work and personal, over the years, and they are all terrible.
I had the same problem for years until I switched to MacBooks
Which use broadcom exclusively. Wanted to try linux on my macbook once. All was well, except that dreaded Broadcom Wifi. Apparently broadcom gives big middle finger when it comes to truly open source drivers. C'mon broadcom.. it's 2016.