My SB Radio was up for 4-5 days and I had never seen it last that long, but this morning it disconnected from the wifi again...so alas...problem not solved.
Locutus1967 wrote: > Hi folks, I know this is a long thread but wanted to share my > experiences with my SB Radio losing wifi connection. I tried everything > in this thread: edit the WLAN file, moving to a dedicated 2.4 G network, > turning off beam forming on my mesh, even the faraday cage nothing > worked until I did something a few days out of pure chance. > > My home network setup is very simple and newbie alert I dont know much > about home networking so apologies in advance if I say anything dumb. I > have a modem/router on my Cable provider (I live in Canada), but a year > ago I purchased a TP-Link Mesh system with 3 Access Point Pucks that I > have placed around the house. The TP-Link is wired to the Router and I > have set it up in Router Mode and not AP mode. So basically my > Modem/Router is really a pass through to my mesh. All of my devices are > on the mesh network. On the SB side my LMS is running on my QNAP NAS > (wired) my Touch is Wired and my Boom and Radio are Wireless (both on > the 2.4 band of the mesh). The Radio would connect then drop after a > few hours like everyone else was experiencing. > > I was recently reading up on how to setup a VPN server on my NAS so I > could connect to my home network from outside the house and I learned > all about Port Forwarding (which I need to setup both on the main Router > and my TP-Link). I never knew what a Port Forward was until I started > reading up on this. When I opened up my Admin page for the modem/router > (not the mesh the TP link has such a basic config options, more on that > at another time) I see several pages of Port Forwards that were setup, > none of which were added by me. I imagine there were apps that were > adding Port Forwards to my router without my knowledge. So I started > removing all of the port forwards that were not forwarding to my mesh > network (I left those since I was not sure if they were still needed). > After removing all of these forward rules my SB Radio no longer drops > the wifi connection, it has now been stable for several days. > > I dont think I understand how a port forward on my router can have this > impact but I wanted to share my experiences in case it can help anyone > else. Apologies for the long post! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Locutus1967's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70182 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953
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