Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] WiFi connection unstable/lost on three Radios
POMdev wrote: > No need to move the router. Try your radio in a basement location where > your phone reports very weak signals from neighbors. My 2 basement > radios are in ordinary basement locations, the most interior one almost > never fails, and the other one is "better." My worst radios are near the > outside walls, where the neighboring signals are pretty strong. good point on the basement, if they have one. The ground is quite dense. My suggestions really have been to narrow down "is it the radio/is it my network/is it nearby network". That's why I suggested moving to a different location and trying. My home is rural and my cabin can't much more rural (no other networks in sight), and I have no problems with my radio. I suppose if my neighbor at home upgrades his router, maybe also, when you say "where your phone reports very weak signals from neighbors, you mean with an app such as wifi analyzer, right? Jim Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] WiFi connection unstable/lost on three Radios
doubleugk wrote: > ...I did another test and placed the SBR quite close to the router. > Assuming that a strong wifi signal would dominate the competing wifi > networks in the neighborhood. But unfortunately there is no difference, > after about 20 minutes the SBR lost the wifi signal. ... I think that doesn't work because the disruption occurs when the radio periodically scans all the channels for access points and hits a (WiFi6 or other) signal that "confuses" the closed source secret chip firmware, causing it to later miss transmissions from the router to the radio. The connection then fails. The solution is to update the chip firmware, and an update may have been created, but I haven't found it. The chip itself seems very capable. A workaround might be to drastically reduce the radio's periodic scanning, perhaps to only during too low signal strength conditions, which would mostly or entirely eliminate the problem for radios with a solid connection. > think it's time to put both your router and a radio in a Faraday Cage > I'm only (half) joking. ... No need to move the router. Try your radio in a basement location where your phone reports very weak signals from neighbors. My 2 basement radios are in ordinary basement locations, the most interior one almost never fails, and the other one is "better." My worst radios are near the outside walls, where the neighboring signals are pretty strong. POMdev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70558 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109953 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
