One of them I am testing and moved it to the attic of the second floor of a two story home (with 140 <span class=“_Tgc”>° F temperature during the day when it is hot here).
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It has been running fine in AP mode only for 41 days 24/7. Wireless access is configured for just the Amazon Alexa and 3 tabletop tablets and sometimes use of 3 different laptops on the main floor.
I am in the midwest here in the US. Two of the AR-300A’s went to the east coast to a friend.
Initially in first 30 days he told me they were working fine but had not shifted over to using them full time.
Now peer is telling me that the AP’s are constantly locking up and he is losing WiFi access.
Today suggested to him first to replace the power supplies as my guess is that he purchased el cheapo little power supplies for these two devices.
It doesn’t make sense to me. First one here purchased is still just fine. Second two purchased 30 days later are the ones causing him problems. That said friend is not an IT centric person.
Seeing same behavior with another router with OpenWRT on it.
Personally here it is with a Lenova iSeries laptop with an Intel wireless card.
Using an older HP laptop with an Intel wireless card and it is a bit slower but never drops the connection.
I see the following every 10 minutes in the syslog. The device macs below are custom programmed macs on my tabletop touchscreens via an SROM programmer. The tabletops seem fine to me.
Fri Jun 23 12:07:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:00:00:01 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:07:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:20:00:12 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:17:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:00:00:01 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:17:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:20:00:12 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:27:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:00:00:01 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:27:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:20:00:12 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:37:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:00:00:01 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:37:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:20:00:12 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:47:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:00:00:01 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Jun 23 12:47:49 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:0e:c6:20:00:12 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Googled WiFi issues with OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05. There are many issues and the recommendation is to downgrade to OpenWrt V 14.XX or
Update to using LEDE project firmware here:
/lede-project.org/toh/startThey have an update there for the AR-300A device here:[OpenWrt Wiki] LEDE v17.01.2 Changelog said, can I update to this firmware and will it affect the GliNet gui?
Note two of the testing AR-300A’s are just utilized for home access points with 2-3 wireless devices: Iphones, Ipads and Wintel laptops which is not heavy resource utilization.
I understand that the device is a travel router and not really meant to be utilized as a primary or secondary access point in a home.
Still testing some here. Created an autonomous network of wireless devices. I can up the numbers to 15 (or more). These are just tabletop touchscreens which are typically POE/Gb wired. I will also add Amazon Echo’s to the mix of wireless on the AR-300A. The tablets are all using Ralink Technology, Corp. Wildpackets 802.11 N USB wireless sticks inside of the tablets with dual antennas placed at 180 degrees to each other. Small antennas are Airgain N2420. The tablets are stationary sprinkled all over the home. IE: 3-4 to a room.
The problem child is a Lenova T540P with an Intel wireless card running Windows 7 Pro or Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit. Not impressed with it in fact company is getting rid of using Lenova laptops to something else. First issue I noticed is a poorly designed no button touch pad which is really an idiot’s design. I have read that they are no longer using them - none the less they have lost many clients due to the poor nature of the design. (note that none of this has anything to do with GliNet)
I am seeing similar wireless issues with same firmware on an Asus combo switch wireless AP. I do not see issues with an Ubiquiti single purpose POE connected AP.
Personally never paid much attention until the issue was brought up.
The peer is not IT centric and understands the use of your GUI and not OpenWRT GUI. In fact he doesn’t know much about wireless at all.