I’ve used my mt300a to connect to several wifi networks in wisp repeater mode without a problem.
For some reason though, it gives me problems consistently at one location. It connects reliably to the main wifi router, but my iPhone connection consistently drops out after a few minutes. If I manually tell it to connect it tries and then drops instantly. Sometimes it prompts for for the WPA password too.
My log says this:
Tue Jan 24 12:18:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Tue Jan 24 12:18:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)
Tue Jan 24 12:18:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Tue Jan 24 12:18:30 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.243 {MAC ADDRESS}
Tue Jan 24 12:18:30 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.243 {MAC ADDRESS} iPhone
Tue Jan 24 12:18:35 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Tue Jan 24 12:18:36 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Tue Jan 24 12:19:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Tue Jan 24 12:19:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)
Tue Jan 24 12:19:30 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Tue Jan 24 12:19:30 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) {MAC ADDRESS}
Tue Jan 24 12:19:30 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.243 {MAC ADDRESS}
Tue Jan 24 12:19:31 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.243 {MAC ADDRESS}
Tue Jan 24 12:19:31 2017 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1620]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.243 {MAC ADDRESS} iPhone
I’m suspicious of this line in particular:
Tue Jan 24 12:18:36 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA {MAC ADDRESS} IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Any ideas?
Thank you