jjz109 wrote: > Hi All - I experienced the same issue w/the WiFi signal disconnecting on > my Squeezebox Radio that many of us have. My solve was to buy a WiFi > extender w/Ethernet port and the radio has been flawless since. That > said, I dont believe the WiFi receiver is failing as many others have > concluded. My radio was rock solid for years and this issue only > appeared last month right after I updated my router firmware. I also > dont think a physical part in hundreds of radios could all fail > simultaneously. ...
The chips are not failing in the sense that they are wearing out or becoming damaged. But the chips and their firmware are failing to handle increasingly complex signal environments coming from increased WiFi usage and new standards starting early 2020. And it is not just the Squeezebox radios suffering from this issue, other -recently- manufactured devices operating on the congested 2.4 gHz band are affected, although yet others don't seem to be. (Derived from this 2020 'post' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97791-Squeezebox-Radio-keeps-losing-wireless-connection-and-won-t-reconnect-any-ideas&p=994038&viewfull=1#post994038). For more information, read the posts in the developer's 'Community-Build-Radio-Firmware' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111663-Community-Build-Radio-Firmware&p=990627&viewfull=1#post990627) section of this forum.) Since that post, the problem was narrowed down to implicate WiFi-6 and mesh networking on the 2.4 gHz band. Modern routers are more and more using this technology to improve speed and coverage. The tech is supposed to be compatible with existing systems, but it evidently is not, at least for a significant number of router models and versions. > ... for mac users which to my knowledge wlanpoke does not work for. ... The mitigation script runs entirely on the radio. However, it is installed and optionally monitored using a computer. The simplified directions on this forum were written for Windows. The included directions were written for PC and linux based computers. You might try those as I understand the more recent Macs are sort of linux based. Can anyone out there help out with simplified instructions for the Mac? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POMdev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70558 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115182
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