Comment 40 for bug 488340

After doing this to remove the bcm packages my wireless runs much better. My wireless does not get disconnected continuously anymore.

This command lists the bcm packages installed on your system.
dpkg -l | grep bcm

These commands remove the bcm packages installed on your system.
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-soure
sudo dpkg -r bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo dpkg --purge bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-modaliases
sudo dpkg --purge bcmwl-modaliases
sudo dpkg -r bcmwl-modaliases