Yeah, some of those hotspots I have really grown to hate. TMobile is currently sending out a hotspot that - and I kid you not - says right in the instructions that you must not leave it plugged into the charger for more than 8 hours at a time or the battery will overcharge and be ruined. They actually enforce this with software on the hotspot that makes it turn off if you leave it plugged into the charger. Apparently the concept of sticking a 50 cent battery management chip into the device to manage the rechargeable Li-Ion battery in the piece of crap was beyond the capabilities of their engineers.....
Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Ben Koenig Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 2:32 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts? Yeah they usually have a couple options, but only a couple. There are some really wacky issues from years ago that typically require a software update to resolve. Even knowing what the hotspot is currently broadcasting can be helpful in narrowing it down or ruling it out. Try connecting a MBP from 2013/2014 to a wpa 2/3 network and youll see what I mean. It works on paper :) -Ben Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On May 12, 2023, 2:22 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt < t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ben Koenig Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 5:47 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts? >Something about this Verizon hotspot network is different from the others. What is it? >By far the easiest thing to do here is change the Verizon hotspot to broadcast an OPEN network, no >encryption. If that works then we know more-or-less where the problem is. >Not saying this is a solution. OPEN encryption should not fail on any device and will tell us if the Verizon >hotspot is using an encryption scheme that the Bullet M2 can't handle. I have worked with some of these cell hotspot devices before and they are most definitely KISS devices and his may not even permit him to make any changes whatsoever to the encryption. Instructions that come with them are on the order of "plug it in and it will display the SSID and password on screen" and that's pretty much it. The cell companies don't want to offer any kind of support on them at all so it's like "get this on a 30 day return and if you can't make it work send it back to us, but don't call for support unless the device tells you "no cell signal" on screen" . Ted
