What's wrong with my wireless?
- by dazzle
I am having issues with my wireless connection.  My connection is constantly disconnecting, then attempting to reconnect, reconnecting momentarily, then disconnecting etc. on times scales that range from seconds to minutes.  In the meantime, needless to say I'm having significant packet loss.  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 64bit, updated and upgraded to today.  Here is my card and driver:
  delta@sager:~$ lspci -vq | grep -i wireless -B 1 -A 5
  
  04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)
  Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
  Flags: bus
  master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
  Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit,
  non-prefetchable) [size=8K]   Capabilities: 
  Kernel
  driver in use: iwlwifi
Here is my kernel:
  delta@sager:~$ uname -r
  
  3.13.0-34-generic
None of the other machines on my home network are having these issues.  Windows Vista is networking without issue for goodness sake ;-)
Here is a small clipping from the output of dmesg.  As you can see, I am getting a cfg80211 message of some sort over and over again (FYI, I've replaced my MAC address with a series of dashes, so anytime there is a ---------------, that was where the MAC address was:
  [ 1881.739161] wlan1: authenticate with --------------- [
  1881.741561] wlan1: send auth to --------------- (try 1/3) [ 1881.743440] wlan1: authenticated [ 1881.746027] wlan1: associate with --------------- (try 1/3) [ 1881.749244] wlan1: RX AssocResp from
  --------------- (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=4) [ 1881.754727] wlan1:
  associated [ 1881.754827] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US [
  1881.761552] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US [ 1881.761559] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 1881.761564] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz -
  2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm) [ 1881.761568] cfg80211:
  (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm) [
  1881.761571] cfg80211:   (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1881.761574] cfg80211:   (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @
  40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1881.761577] cfg80211:   (5650000
  KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1881.761580]
  cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000
  mBm) [ 1881.761584] cfg80211:   (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000
  KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm) [ 1882.391038] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update
  world regulatory domain [ 1882.396254] cfg80211: World regulatory
  domain updated: [ 1882.396260] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @
  bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 1882.396265] cfg80211:
  (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [
  1882.396268] cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1882.396271] cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @
  20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1882.396274] cfg80211:   (5170000
  KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1882.396277]
  cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
  mBm) [ 1886.148252] wlan1: authenticate with --------------- [
  1886.150005] wlan1: send auth to --------------- (try 1/3) [ 1886.151807] wlan1: authenticated [ 1886.154847] wlan1: associate with --------------- (try 1/3) [ 1886.158147] wlan1: RX AssocResp from
  --------------- (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=4) [ 1886.163464] wlan1:
  associated [ 1886.163520] wlan1: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm
  as advertised by --------------- [ 1886.163588] cfg80211: Calling
  CRDA for country: US [ 1886.170500] cfg80211: Regulatory domain
  changed to country: US [ 1886.170508] cfg80211:   (start_freq -
  end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 1886.170513]
  cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700
  mBm) [ 1886.170517] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000
  KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm) [ 1886.170520] cfg80211:   (5250000 KHz -
  5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1886.170523] cfg80211:
  (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [
  1886.170526] cfg80211:   (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1886.170529] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @
  40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm) [ 1886.170533] cfg80211:   (57240000
  KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm) [ 1887.200197]
  cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [
  1887.203655] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: [ 1887.203659] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
  max_eirp) [ 1887.203662] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @
  40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1887.203664] cfg80211:   (2457000
  KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1887.203666]
  cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
  mBm) [ 1887.203668] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000
  KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 1887.203670] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz -
  5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
I've poked around on AskUbuntu, and have not found any adequate solutions;  have also found similar threads that were left unanswered.
Any advice/experience/threads I might be able to pull on would be greatly appreciated. In your opinion, is this a kernel issue, hardware issue, etc.? Thanks in advance. 
EDIT:
chili, here's the output of iwconfig:
  delta@sager:~$ iwconfig wlan1     IEEE 802.11abg 
  ESSID:"LANbeforetime"
            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: -----------
            Bit Rate=48 Mb/s   Tx-Power=16 dBm
            Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
            Power Management:off
            Link Quality=44/70  Signal level=-66 dBm
            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:80   Missed beacon:0
  
  eth0      no wireless extensions.
  
  lo        no wireless extensions.