I have 4 GL-AR150’s installed in 4 schools. They all have an identical setup. For 2 of them, after about 3 or 4 days, you can no longer connect to them. They need to be restarted before you can connect. The schools are remote and it is not easy to restart them due to the installation location. (for security they are mounted high on a wall and in a secure box.) My questions are;
Does anyone know a solution for the router so that it doesn’t constantly need restarting?
The router is connected to a Raspberry Pi. Is there some hardware that we can buy that will shut down the raspberry Pi and router overnight every day? (This would also help with power consumption)
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We are creating solar-powered servers in schools where we host educational content for the teachers that aligns with the government curriculum. We have already installed in 3 schools and one in our office. This is the hardware that is currently connected;
questions. do you have power or is it only battery and solar power. assuming you cant connect to them means it has some internet access. if so how, through local wifi or perhaps a 4g hotspot device running off the battery and solar also?
fyi plug a gl-usb150 into the pi. you’ll thank me later.
single power source.
less wires.
the usb150 becomes an ethernet adapter to the pi and ehe wan connectivity for the pi over wireless.
It is only connected to solar power.
This is a stand-alone server. It is not connected to the internet. What I mean is that we can not connect a smartphone or laptop to the router. When you look for the wifi network from the AR150, nothing appears. If we restart the router, then we can find the network again and connect.
Interesting point on the USB model. The reason that we chose the AR150 is that it has an external antenna. We need to get maximum signal strength to be accessible from multiple classrooms. You are right that it would be less wires, possibly less power consumption also.
In your opinion, does the USB version have a comparable reach for the network?
so sorry, I diddn’t read that carefully. you have a 3+ I have a pi 4. it works flawless with a pi4 except that the pi boots up way faster than the gl-usb150. One good thing about the pi is that it powercycles the usb ports on a reboot. or it may be a bad thing because that it would be ready and able when the pi reboots. . maybe you can lower the antenna transmit power of the gl-usb150 without losing the distance you were actually looking to gain.