I have THREE Squeezeboxes plus a Squeezebox Boom. Recently, after many years of flawless experience, all 3 Squeezeboxes have started disconnecting from my 2.4Ghz WiFi. Within 15 minutes up to about 90 minutes. The Boom never disconnects. The Squeezeboxes work fine if I run Ethernet to them; they do not ever disconnect.
When they disconnect, they all disconnect at the same time, so it is not an individual hardware issue. I placed one of them less than 2 feet from the router; it disconnects simultaneously with the other two so it is not a distance/obstruction issue. A factory reset on the router changed nothing. A factory reset on one of the Squeezeboxes changed nothing. I excluded the router as cause entirely by buying and installing a new router with a bare-bones configuration file; it changed nothing. I changed the fixed 2.4GHz channel several times based on WiFi sniffing, changed the channel width setting to 20MHz, changed from 802.11b/g/n to 802.11g/n (the Squeezeboxes are 802.11g), static IP or dynamic IP all changed nothing. After reading a bunch of boards on this topic, what I now surmise from combining all that wisdom & experiences with my own experimenting is that the firmware code in the Squeezeboxes is 'weak' with regard to recovering from temporary/transient 2.4Ghz signal disruptions due to interference and noise and instead all too readily defaults to a disconnection. (The Boom firmware code is apparently less weak in that regard.) This has apparently only recently become an issue since the market is now ever-saturating with all sorts of devices built on the 2.4GHz WiFi platform -- my sniffing sniffed everything from wireless printers to TV sound bars to Roku remote controls. And there are devices that are set to continually 'auto-pick' the best 2.4GHz channel, meaning they are constantly jumping from one channel to another looking for better signal and so they are walking all over all the channels all the time. And there are even mesh routers on the market that will try to grab almost all the available 2.4Ghz channels (2 through 10) for simultaneous use. And all that ignores the basic flaw in 2.4GHz design: that only three channels do not overlap with any other channel (1,6 & 11), that those three channels, anymore, are always in use nearby with strong signal ... and that any of the other channels will catch at least some interference/noise from some of the other channels. And so my neighborhood apparently has finally filled with 2.4Ghz devices to the point that they have overwhelmed the capacity of the Squeezebox's (weak) ability to tolerate and/or overcome the interference and noise all these other devices are generating. Bam. Disconnect. If this is the case I only see three solutions: (1) Migrate off my Squeezebox devices and onto Boom devices, (2) Implement one of those Wifi-to-Ethernet dongle solutions I see others speaking of (such as Vonet) or (3) purchase some kind of illegal WiFi jammer-blaster device and run it 24/7 at maximum power until enough of these other offending devices are abandoned by their users. (lol.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DoctorQuality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72243 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97791
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