Elk M1G frequent disconnects from ethernet connection?

[jruben4]

Hi -

I've got my Elk M1G communicating fine with my PC over ethernet/LAN to ElkRP2. However, I get frequent "connection terminated". I just tell it to log back it and it finds it again just fine, but I seem to get a random disconnect every few minutes or so. Any ideas?

 

[signal15]

Is your PC on wireless? Maybe it's a flaky wireless connection.

 

[jruben4]

You were right. I switched from a wireless PC to a hardwired PC and the rate of disconnects is much less (but not zero). I don't think my wireless is "flaky" but maybe ElkRP2 is much more sensitive to 100% up-time than I realize than with normal wireless activities.

 

[tenholde]

I lost connection several times last night, and realised that one of my computers was downloading MS updates and using a lot of bandwidth. RP seems to be sensitive to heavy network traffic.

tenholde

 

[michelkenny]

Is your ElkRP2 set to disconnect after X amount of minutes? It's in the options somewhere.

 

[jruben4]

No that's not it. I didn't change anything in RP2 and just switching to a non-wireless connection dramatically decreased the disconnect rate.

 

[signal15]

I use wireless for connection to mine, and it does not disconnect at all unless I hit the timeout.

If you're in an area with a large amount of Wifi, try changing your channel to the lowest or the highest as many default to somewhere in the middle. There should be less interference there. Also look at the distance and obstacles between your AP and your PC. If the AP will run dd-wrt, then you should probably upgrade to it. My linksys stuff running the stock firmware sucked, but works great on dd-wrt.

 

[jruben4]

I do have DD-WRT, and I run HD video and all sorts of other high-bandwidth applications (at other times, not when I'm running RP2) without issue over the wifi, so I don't think it's really suffering from lack of bandwidth.