rogingat wrote: > I have been following this forum and others for months. There are > hundreds of pages of questions and comments on this subject however no > solutions! Yes, I have seen some software patches posted that are > supposed to work. the only problem is most of us are not able to install > this patch. I don't even know where to start! Patch what? Where? How? > And yes. I have seen some comments on changing channel on the router. > Well many of us have routers with LOCKED channel settings. They can't be > changed. > So in conclusion I have a radio that requires a router connection in > order to play music and I can't hold a router connection. Now it is just > a very expensive alarm clock! > > p.s. The funny thing is that every time a new person posts their > connection dropping problem it generates the same 20 pages of dead-end > questions and suggestions! > > Roger
Hi Roger, One test if the problem is due to Wifi 6 standard is that the Radio will work reliable on ethernet but is unreliable on Wifi. You will have to manually switch to ethernet connection as it is not automatic. A solution is to bypass the internal wifi on the Radio by using wifi to ethernet bridge. I use a TP-link nano travel router (WR802) in access point mode. Others use a similar device made by Vonets. (The instructions for the Vonets is sparse and I could not get it to work, but others have sucess so it is user error by me.) This should solve the problem if interference is caused by the Wifi 6 standard being used by your or a neighbor's router. The downside of this solution is the Radio becomes less mobile. I solved this by using a '*USB power*' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97791-Squeezebox-Radio-keeps-losing-wireless-connection-and-won-t-reconnect-any-ideas&p=1037602&highlight=#post1037602) brick to power the TP-link router. The wlanpoke script can help, but for me I still have to reboot one of my Radios once a week. The instructions are found on the first post '*here*' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114775-Simplified-instructions-for-Squeezebox-Radio-Wi-Fi-fix-(wlanpoke)). My understanding is either the wifi chip in the Radio or its firmware has a problem. Since the firmware for the wifi chip is proprietary, there is no way for this community to fix the problem is software related. The Touch and other SB devices use a different Wifi Chip, it those devices do not have this problem. The above condenses my understanding of the issue from readings the forums over the last year, and the solution I used to mitigate the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
