Thanks for these comments Jim. I am also inclined to think that it is
something to do with my wifi signal strength. This morning I logged it
varying between 2% and 48% in the course of 30 minutes without me
making any changes.
Once it connects it can usually sustain the streaming of music even
It's fairly common for Microwaves to disrupt wifi, but it depends on
placement. My apartment is long, so the kitchen (and microwave) sits
between the kitchen table and the other room with the router.
The microwave will disrupt anything in the kitchen and beyond, but
everything closer to the
Thanks for this SuperQ. Good to have some ideas of things to try. I'm
afraid I am not very clued up on the jargon of networking though. Could
you point me somewhere I can find out about changing channels? I can
move the SB receiver locally to a more exposed position rather than
surrounded by my
It's probably your wireless network signal strength.
The channels available are slightly different radio frequencies
(basically). It may be that you have a neighbour with a wireless system
on the same channel, and that's causing interference.
The option for changing your radio channel is
Thanks Davis and SuperQ
I've shifted the SB receiver to be on the top of all my HiFi stuff, so
it's a bit closer to the router which is on the floor above. It is now
also less surrounded by nearby HiFi equipment which does seem to have
been shielding it - my signal strength has now gone up to
Oh Dear! I spoke too soon.
A few hours later and I had the same problems. Difficulty to get the SB
to connect to the network and when it finally did, the signal strength
was again down to 10% without my having moved anything. I can't
understand how it is changing so much.
I'm certainly not going
If you have metallic items in your walls/floors this can severely limit
distances for Wifi. We had to span a distance of only about 20' for
one connection, yet had to go to directional antennas on both ends to
get 100% reliable connections (heat pump pipe and electrical wiring
issues).
My Duet
copernical;288975 Wrote:
Oh Dear! I spoke too soon.
A few hours later and I had the same problems. Difficulty to get the SB
to connect to the network and when it finally did, the signal strength
was again down to 10% without my having moved anything. I can't
understand how it is changing so
JimC wrote:
If I had to guess, I'd say that you have external interference that's
reducing your wireless signal strength. 2.4GHz is a very crowded
spectrum, with all kinds of devices competing for bandwdith and
signal.
A new neighbor installing their own WiFi can cause troubles. as well as
pfarrell;289146 Wrote:
my microwave oven, which kills all WiFi in my house.
You've mentioned this a few time over the last 2 or 3 years Pat. Have
you ever thought about getting a new Microwave? I can recommend my
Sharp one, which never interferes with my wifi network.
;-)
MC
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ModelCitizen
ModelCitizen wrote:
You've mentioned this a few time over the last 2 or 3 years Pat. Have
you ever thought about getting a new Microwave? I can recommend my
Sharp one, which never interferes with my wifi network.
Well, I have considered it. But my day job is using ZigBee networks
which also
WRT54GL is good (with for example Tomato firmware).
When I got my WRT54GL I cranked upp the wifi power and got consistent
90-93% strength insted off 68-73% as i had with my netgear.
This will not always be the trick as communication is two way, but as
most com is TO the box (the audio stream
pfarrell;289167 Wrote:
ModelCitizen wrote:
You've mentioned this a few time over the last 2 or 3 years Pat.
Have
you ever thought about getting a new Microwave? I can recommend my
Sharp one, which never interferes with my wifi network.
Well, I have considered it. But my day job is
I sometimes get the following message from my controller.
couldn't connect your SB to your wireless network. Make sure it is
within range of your wireless network. (Lost Squeezebox)
I can usually overcome this by switching off and on again, or if this
doesn't do it, by doing a factory reset.
10-30% is a bit low. I would suggest all the normal tricks to get that
up to atleast 50%. Try changing channels. (1,6,11) Change orientation
of the antennas. Change location of AP or squeezebox receiver. Add
higher gain antennas to the AP. Mod SBR with higher gain antennas.
Add second AP
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