Ping timeouts indicate a poor Wi-Fi connection.
- Place the openSPOT2 close to the Wi-Fi router.
- Make sure the Wi-Fi bandwith is set to max. 20Mhz in the Wi-Fi router (see explanation here:
https://superuser.com/questions/542191/does-moving-my-router-from-20mhz-to-40-mhz-increase-my-wireless-speed
)
- If it still does not work, try switching Wi-Fi channel on your Wi-Fi router. Only channels 1, 6 or 11 should be used (see explanation here:
https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/why-channels-1-6-11.html
)
Like I mentioned, I was
streaming live video
at the time I did THAT ping. The OS2 is 3 feet from my router, if not less. Doing the ping RIGHT now, with nothing going on on my network I get no time outs.
Last login: Fri Dec 17 22:40:02 on ttys000
jeff@jeffs-imac-2 ~ % ping 10.0.1.15
PING 10.0.1.15 (10.0.1.15): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.804 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=116.632 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=4.013 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.793 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=5.111 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=7.428 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=163.047 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=5.398 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.15: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=5.190 ms
This is the only wireless device that has had connection issues with my 2.4 GHz or 5Ghz wifi network. None of my iDevices, work laptops, multiple smart home plugs, switches, thermometers or multiple Raspberry Pi's suffer with any connection issues.