Thread: OM5P-AP wifi dropping out
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Re: OM5P-AP wifi dropping out
Can you post the log file, or image of the file loaded in the viewer?

The school network is pretty crowded, the DS laptops only do 2.4, and sometimes the OpenMesh decides to setup house on channel 9, or 4. This leads to lots of retransmissions on wifi and to bursts of packet loss that would cause the robot to be disabled and disconnected.

A wifi channel scanner app will help you identify whether the channel is the problem. Mac laptops have this built in. Connect to the robot and option-click on the wifi symbol. It will list how it connected to the robot. But this may not be how the DS laptop is connected. If you choose to Open Wireless Diagnostics, then go to the Windows menu, you can choose Scan and see both the 2.4 and/or 5 channel that the AP is on, and you can compare it to the others in the area.

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