1 Topic by agarcor21 (edited by agarcor21 2008-07-17 03:09:25)

  • Registered: 2008-07-17
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Wifi problems

I just received the new chumby from a friend (I live in Spain) and I cannot connect to chumby.com.

From my wireless laptop I can connect www.chumby.com with dhcp. I got both messages

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Failed to obtain IP address
chumby.com is unreachable
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The dhcp table of the router (zyxel 660) during a few seconds included the Chumby's MAC with a 192.168.1.35 assigned, (the chumby was at that moment still thinking) but then dissapeared from that table and chumby wrote both messages on the screen.

To be sure that WEP password was unrelated with this (ascii and hex and all that stuff), I removed the WEP encription and the problem still persisted.
I have not MAC filtering on the router

Are you familiar with this behaviour?

Thanks in advance

  • Registered: 2008-07-17
  • Posts: 2

Re: Wifi problems

I have something

The router has these channels

channel  1 - 2412Mhz
channel  2 - 2417Mhz
channel  3 - 2422Mhz
channel  4 - 2427Mhz
channel  5 - 2432Mhz
channel  6 - 2437Mhz
channel  7 - 2442Mhz
channel  8 - 2448Mhz
channel  9 - 2452Mhz
channel 10 - 2457Mhz
channel 11 - 2462Mhz
channel 12 - 2467Mhz
channel 13 - 2472Mhz

Anyboby knows which one is better for chumby?

Actually is configured in channel 6 and chumby is around half a meter from the router

  • From: San Diego
  • Registered: 2007-10-25
  • Posts: 205

Re: Wifi problems

agarcor21 wrote:

I have something

The router has these channels

channel  1 - 2412Mhz
channel  2 - 2417Mhz
channel  3 - 2422Mhz
channel  4 - 2427Mhz
channel  5 - 2432Mhz
channel  6 - 2437Mhz
channel  7 - 2442Mhz
channel  8 - 2448Mhz
channel  9 - 2452Mhz
channel 10 - 2457Mhz
channel 11 - 2462Mhz
channel 12 - 2467Mhz
channel 13 - 2472Mhz

Anyboby knows which one is better for chumby?

Actually is configured in channel 6 and chumby is around half a meter from the router

Channels 1, 6 or 11 are generally the best.
Rule of thumb, stay at least 2 channels away from other WiFi signals.
Try Netstumbler to survey for neighboring signals - http://www.netstumbler.com/

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