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Just got my Asus Chromebox, and installed Ubuntu/Kodi dual-boot. Relatively painless, except...

1) My wifi link seems slow. On first boot after the script updated my firmware, I couldn't connect to my wifi network at all for about 10min - kept getting the "out of range" error in chromeos. After I managed to connect & finish installing ubuntu, my link speed (as given by iwconfig) never seems to get above ~120Mbps (802.11n), or ~300Mbps (802.11ac). By comparison, my ancient laptop, sitting at the same location, gets a 200-450Mbps 802.11n link. Before flashing back to the stock firmware to see if it's any better, I thought I'd post here.

2) Color range: the grayscale ramp test video looked steppy at default settings, so I turned on Limited Color Range in kodi settings. Ramp looked smoother, but the blacks were washed out. Ran "xrandr --output HDMI1 --set "Broadcast RGB" "Full" with some improvement, but the blacks are still very grey ("Limited 16:235" was worse). The only way to get them looking "right" was to turn OFF Limited Color Range, and *also* use the "Full" setting via xrandr. Am I missing something? How can I get the correct range processing in kodi to avoid banding, but still have the range go all the way down to black?

2) Please see the wiki. It all depends on the Range of your TV.