Raspberry Pi Dropping Wifi

Was there any understanding made as to why raspberry boards might be dropping off wifi? Mine hadn't done it in a long while but has now decided to do so again...
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miklschmidt
miklschmidt•3y ago
No, but it's a common issue apparently. The mainsail crew even went so far to create "Sonar" which is basically a service that pings the gateway in an attempt to keep the wifi alive. Unfortunately it conflicts with the hotspot, so it's currently not included in 2.x. I haven't ever experienced it myself. Even having machines being idle for weeks, with no loss of connection. It's very strange.
psyvision
psyvisionOP•3y ago
I might look at that (I think I had seen it before in their github). I don't run an update RatOS 😉 so no conflicts will occur here. My network is pretty good stuff (UniFi) and this seems to be the only thing that does it. I usually turn it off each night but didn't last night and voila... I did find a super long spare network cable in the loft and that might be the answer 😄 Switched to 5GHz and will see how that holds up
miklschmidt
miklschmidt•3y ago
I use AmpliFi myself. That'll definitely work 😄
rival-black
rival-black•3y ago
This is the way!

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