Unfortunately I have joined this club recently when a neighbor upgraded to a Wifi6 (ax) network. It seems that neighbours with WIFI6 or Asus Routers (Wifi 5 and 6) interfere with WLAN of Squeezebox Radios. This will become a broad problem, thus more an more posts in this thread. Therefore some conclusions / observations from my own investigations: - Only those radios are affected which are close to my neighbor with an interfering wifi. The issue is not caused by my own equipment, I systematically moved radios in my apartment - only those radios close to the interfering network are affected. - Changing my own router does not help - using an alternative router limited to b+g did not change anything - This fits to many stories in the board. If you change your equipment to wifi6 you might run into problems, especially for ASUS routers (for Asus also wifi 5) - However you can also be a victim of your neighbor - changing channels will not help. Using another router will not help. I assume that the background passive channel scanning of the Squeezebox Radio with non-compatible routers causes the problem. - In my case the driver for the wifi equipment seems to crash - I can only recover when rebooting the radio, no chance to change the network once it crashed (without reboot).... - The new community firmware has the same issue - Overall there are many reports in the forum about own networks with WIFI6, but also unknown sources (I assume these are the neighbors switching to WIFI 6). - Long-term this will kill the wifi of Squeezebox radios (I am not sure if Booms, Controllers and Touches are affected as well), as more and more neighbors will upgrade. - What can we do: 1.) The best solution would be if the community firmware could tackle this problem. I am not sure if the drivers are open source and somebody can address this. From my perspective this will be the only long-term sustainable solution 2.) Powerline would be the most trusted source: You connect your Radio Ethernet to a Powerline network (IP network transimitted by your power cables), not interfering with any WIFI. However these adapters are bulky and might not fit your location 3.) Wifi to Ethernet adapters. Vonets have been mentioned in this forums with mixed results concerning success and and long-term sustainability. I ordered 2 and will test them for some weeks (300g and 300n) and will report the results to this forum. So far the 300n is smaller but gets a lot hotter than the 300g. I will keep you updated on my own experience, also given the mixed experiences reported by Amazon user feedbacks....
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