frankd wrote: > 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....
Of course powerline adaptors and WiFi to ethernet adaptors make the Radio a lot less portable. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
