Wireless not working after competition

Technical Control System
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After returning from our regional competitions, we became unable to connect to the robot wirelessly. After some trouble-shooting, we figured out the following facts:
we can connect to 10.17.19.4
we can connect to 10.17.19.5
we cannot connect to 10.17.19.1
Even if we connect the ethernet cable from the radio to a laptop, we cannot connect to 10.17.19.1
However, when we plug the ethernet cable from the robot’s radio to the Wireless router, we can then connect to 10.17.19.1

How can we make it so we can run the robot wirelessly again? And at what point do we stop troubleshooting and start buying a new radio?

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You need to set the settings on your wireless gaming adapter so that it will connect to your router. These settings were changed at competition.

If you had searched before posting, you probably would have already found all of the helpful information in these threads:

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Nick,

Thanks for the links, but please don’t assume that people haven’t searched before posting, or that searching before posting this type of question is a necessity. In the broad category of “wireless communication problems” there are tons of situations, and wading through literally hundreds of posts is often pointless, when someone (in this case, perhaps an FTAA or FTA) knows the answer.

Further, we have spent quite a while attempting to adjust the settings on both the WGA and the WRT, thus far with no success. One of the questions the OP asked was, “And at what point do we stop troubleshooting and start buying a new radio?” If the radio’s capability of sending out wireless signals is gone, no amount of messing with settings will do anything.

-Paul

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Did you try resetting it to zero with the small button on it’s back?

If yes, try doing it again while it is connected to the router, and than reboot both of them to the state in which they came in the kits. That did the job for us…

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We were having problems too, I don’t know what the above poster was referring to but at our regional they had to change our security settings. I would just go through the manual from start to finish, it helped with our problem. If you don’t get it to work let me know.

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As they said, do a hard reset of your gaming bridge. Hold the reset button down for 30 seconds. That will reset the adapter’s IP address to 192.168.1.250. Go into your computer and set your IP to 192.168.1.6 and type in the address above. The password and user name are admin. Then just set the IP and gateway for your router. Gaming bridge is 10.xx.yy.1 and router is 10.xx.yy.4. Of couse xx and yy are your team number.

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2052 is experiencing the same issue. We will try a few of these solutions tomorrow and report back.