Re: [9front] wifi

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On January 24, 2020 5:03:01 AM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>sl: i'm surprised to hear you have multiple times the same bssid on
>different channels. that sounds non-standard, too and if you can turn
>that off it might help indeed.

sorry, I meant essid.

I had fiber gigabit internet installed, along with a much needed isp-provided wifi repeater. they recommended setting both 2ghz and 5ghz channels in my isp-provided router/ap to the same essid, and the repeater mirrors those essids, for a grand total of three separate channels using the same essid (for some reason the 5ghz channel on the repeater uses the same channel as the 5ghz on the router/ap, but the 2ghz does not). at the other end of my house where 9front is located, signal strength from the router/ap is weak but works, and signal strength from the repeater is strong.

ever since this was all setup, my local 9front (which uses said wifi) has started freezing/dropping incoming rcpu sessions. incoming rcpu -p can only rarely complete a connection at all. rcpu without -p can usually connect, but suffers accordingly. making and sustaining connections to this machine was never a problem before.

seemed logical to start by asking questions only about the recent changes on my network that coincided with the observed trouble. machine's most recent sysupdate is only a few days ago, but I don't recall any recent wifi changes.

sysinfo: http://okturing.com/src/7656/body

obviously, i'm not a wifi expert. maybe i'm barking up the wrong tree.

sl