Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 2 August 2021 12:31:58 BST PeterMerchant wrote: > Is there a program that displays Wifi signal strength? - Yeah - iwconfig! Also, wavemon does the same thing in a pseudo graphical way and updates at intervals. Very useful when testing antenna positioning. --

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-02 Thread PeterMerchant
On 02/08/2021 10:04, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday, 2 August 2021 09:57:47 BST PeterMerchant wrote: It is an interesting question. On my PC which has a 4M cable to a wifi dongle hanging in a window, and on the same side of the house as the router, but diagonal far corner. (Downstairs west of

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 2 August 2021 09:57:47 BST PeterMerchant wrote: > It is an interesting question. On my PC which has a 4M cable to a wifi > dongle hanging in a window, and on the same side of the house as the > router, but diagonal far corner. (Downstairs west of house to upstairs east > of house)

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-02 Thread PeterMerchant
On 02/08/2021 06:51, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:53:22 BST Tim wrote: Has a new Wifi to the area appeared and is swamping music and bells wifi, thus forcing it off line? I'm not aware of anything like that. In any case the five Tiny-TV Pis (which are all further from the

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 1 August 2021 18:53:22 BST Tim wrote: > Has a new Wifi to the area appeared and is swamping music and bells > wifi, thus forcing it off line? I'm not aware of anything like that. In any case the five Tiny-TV Pis (which are all further from the Antenna) would also be affected. The

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-01 Thread Tim
Has a new Wifi to the area appeared and is swamping music and bells wifi, thus forcing it off line? Could you setup a simple ping script to a router or something similar and i it fails to get a reply then it reboot the PI? Does not solve the issue but keep it running Tim H On 01/08/2021

Re: [Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 1 August 2021 08:12:03 BST Terry Coles wrote: > This system will of course reboot in an hours time. If that restores > connectivity, we can probably live with the situation, but I'd really like > to know what is going on. Well. The reboot worked and I am now in again. The main

[Dorset] WiFi Still Dropping Out at WMT - Yet Again

2021-08-01 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, This has been discussed ad infinitum on this list and also on the WMT Forum. To recap; the WiFi connected to the Music Pi drops out after 2 to 3 days of operation and the output of iwconfig shows that the number against Invalid misc: increases steadily. The only way to regain WiFi access