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Re: weird wireless connection problems

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Originally Posted by bcharbonneau View Post
It might be a problem with the autoscan on the router. We were significantly slowing down our school network and our robot until we turned off autoscan and set the router to a specific channel (in our case we set it to channel 8 because our school was not using it). Now we have no connection problems and we are not crashing our schools network. Has anyone else had this problem?
I've seen exactly that problem at a robot demo. The DAP seems not to do a very good job of selecting a clear channel. One team had an unusably bad connection, and a scan of wireless networks showed that their robot had chosen the same WiFi channel as a nearby technology company's demo system.
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