Connection Problems

[ethan271]

Originally Posted by marshall

I'm going to guess your school is doing something similar to what our school does. We cannot run our robots wirelessly at our school because the school blocks "rogue" access points (Wireless access points that the school doesn't control).

We managed to resolve this by discussing it with the school IT admins and having them white list our robot access points. They'll likely need the MAC address as well as the wireless SSID.

On a personal note, I despise this type of filtering and think it is obnoxious. It works by flooding rogue APs with de-auth packets and just creates more RF noise for no good reason. It also seldom works on hotspots because they are within 1-2 ft of the computer using them and the de-auths just cause the connection to slow and not drop out.

Something to ask your school's network/IT people about and a possible path for troubleshooting.

EDIT: We've also worked around it with 5ghz APs from Ubiquiti but that's another story...

we can connect wirelessly with one of our computers