• Works here but not there

    From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to All on Sun Aug 22 15:30:00 2021

    Hi Folks!

    Know this is going to have answers with "could be" which is better than
    what I'm coming up (and so why posting).

    Was playing with two Raspberry Pi's, one the 3B (only the 2.4 GHz bnad) and
    the other a 4B (2.4 and 5 GHz bands). The WiFi dual band Access Point is
    up here in the Computer Room, essentially top-center of the house. Both
    Pi's connected fine when testing up here. Both Pi's had troubles connecting/maintaining a connection when downstairs, so one story down
    and 1« rooms over, through wood.

    Test the signal strength with an app on my cell phone. Up here pegging (better!), downstairs a little over half -- 60%? Should be more than
    enough signal, plus was notably stronger than the neighbours' signals.
    Wandered a bit looking for dead spots or dips - nothing. The 2G signal
    is sometimes slightly better than the 5G at time, usually 5G better.

    I'm not seeing anything giving me a reason why works fine up here and
    spotty downstairs.

    On a whim switched to the WiFi from the ISP's ONT (? essentially their
    router) -- no connection problems! Only tried wih the RPi 4B (at that
    point in trials and testing I thought the problem was the RPi 3B was too
    slow and/or the data stream was overwhelming the critter).

    So any ideas/suggestions as to why the connection issues? TIA!



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