Cannot connect Duet Wifi to new Wifi Router

bondus

I used to work with wifi routers a few years back and spent countless hours staring at sniffed packet logs to figure out why things did not connect.

Some things are simply not compatible with each other. It has nothing to do with radio quality, just that one of the parts involved has interpreted the standard in a different way. If it's a ISP provided router it will be the lowest bidder that has interpreted the standard...

GaRv3

@bearer
Tried same SSID and PW on the new one. Yes

GaRv3

@bondus
This is so frustrating. What is the use of standards if no one sticks to them?

Danal

A Former User

@GaRv3 said in Cannot connect Duet Wifi to new Wifi Router:

What is the use of standards if no one sticks to them?

see if the new one has some ultra mega max 2000 multimedia streaming extensions and try fixing the channel width to 20mhz and setting bgn mode to a lower common denominator, apart from that sounds like you might be better off briding the Duet to the old router?

droftarts

@GaRv3 Did you check/update the firmware on the router? Also, what router is it?

Ian

GaRv3

It's a so called "Vodafone Station".
To be precise it is the ARRIS Touchstone TG3442DE.

The firmware gets updated by the ISP automatically.

GaRv3

@bearer said in Cannot connect Duet Wifi to new Wifi Router:

see if the new one has some ultra mega max 2000 multimedia streaming extensions and try fixing the channel width to 20mhz and setting bgn mode to a lower common denominator, apart from that sounds like you might be better off briding the Duet to the old router?

Limiting to 20 MHz didn't make any difference.
The mode cannot be changed to anything but "Mixed 802.11 g/n" for the 2.4 GHz wifi on this router.

Edit: I cannot use the old router as an access point because I have to send it back to the ISP soon.

A Former User

I'm afraid I'm running out of suggestions; if running the Duet as an AP and your AP as a client* isn't a workable option (which sounds unlikely if its an ISP device).

*) in addition to the regular AP

GaRv3

@bearer
That's not possible with this router.
So my only option is probably to buy an M.2 wifi module for the PC and use this to connect to the Duet run in AP mode. But first I would like to double check if the module is compatible to the Duet.

I would probably pick the Intel 9260NGW which is a Wifi 2.4/5Ghz + Wifi 6 + BT 5.0 chipset. Any experience with this chipset connecting to the Duet AP?

droftarts

@GaRv3 said in Cannot connect Duet Wifi to new Wifi Router:

I would probably pick the Intel 9260NGW which is a Wifi 2.4/5Ghz + Wifi 6 + BT 5.0 chipset. Any experience with this chipset connecting to the Duet AP?

As it's the Duet setting the network, I'd guess almost any wireless adapter would work. We don't keep track of hardware that works, you're better off looking at more general 'works with ESP8266' pages.

Also found this, which sounds similar to the problem you're having: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/4257
Might be useful for @dc42 to look at?

Ian

Sparatutto created this issue in esp8266/Arduino

closed v2.4.0 - wifi.status() and wifi.localIP not updated after a reconnect. #4257

GaRv3

@droftarts
Yes, actually seems like something @dc42 might be able to fix. I think I will try the wifi module in the meantime anyway.

A Former User

@droftarts said in Cannot connect Duet Wifi to new Wifi Router:

Also found this, which sounds similar to the problem you're having: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/4257

if related, setting a static IP in the duet may help

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although bad mojo to set a static address inside a dhcp pool without at least making a reservation.

droftarts

@GaRv3 Please do try @bearer 's suggestion of setting a static ip address, too.

Ian

GaRv3

Already tried that. And I reserved the IP on the router as well to make sure it is free.

droftarts

@GaRv3 Okay, fair enough. I've asked @dc42 to take a look.

Ian

Dougal1957

I had the exact same issue as this a couple of years ago eventually had to use a TP-LINK Travel router in AP Mode for the duet to connect to the issue was a Router that just didn't like the ESP at all (it was a nether one as well) once I replaced the router everything came back to normal.

Doug

GaRv3

@Dougal1957
Did you replace the router with the sam model (so, was it defect) or did you pick another one?

GaRv3

So for now (until the wifi module arrives) I have connected an AP which I found in a closet to the second LAN port of my PC, created a wireless network and connected the Duet. Works just fine... as a temporary workaround.

droftarts

@GaRv3 Glad you have a (temporary) solution!

Ian