How long should ELKRP stay connected?

[PlanoMike]

I'm connecting from ElkRP on my laptop to my M1 via Wifi to an Elk Ethernet adaptor connected to the main comm port of my control. I get "Control disconnected" messages at unpredictable times. While sometimes I can maintain a connection for 30+ minutes, at other times I get disconnected in two or three minutes.

Is this normal behavior? If not, would noise/interference with my WiFi cause this or is it more likely a problem with my M1?

TIA

Mike

 

[mustangcoupe]

Mike,

I have never had a problem disconnecting from rp. Can you connect right back up?

Do you drop your internet connection if you are surfing the web?

 

[PlanoMike]

Yes. I connect successfully to the M1 on a retry.

I do not have any issues with internet connectivity, Remote desktop into other PCs in the house, or file sharing on other pcs in the house.

 

[frankdr]

If it helps, I've had mine connected overnight without problems. The connection was over wired ethernet, not wireless.

 

[opie]

I'm connecting from ElkRP on my laptop to my M1 via Wifi to an Elk Ethernet adaptor connected to the main comm port of my control. I get "Control disconnected" messages at unpredictable times. While sometimes I can maintain a connection for 30+ minutes, at other times I get disconnected in two or three minutes.

Is this normal behavior? If not, would noise/interference with my WiFi cause this or is it more likely a problem with my M1?

TIA

Mike

I have the exact same problem. I figured it was a "feature" of the wireless connection.

 

[mustangcoupe]

I guess Opie has it... it's a undoccumented feature of your wireless setup.... LOL I am able to stay connected no problem (wireless even) I just disconnected from it after 45 min. And this morning I left it connected for an hour.

 

[opie]

I'll give it a try via hardwired ethernet too see if I get different results.

PlanoMike,

I have the Netgear WGR614 and it is a few years old, If you have the same maybe we can narrow it down to a brand of wireless. Maybe MustangCoupe will share his secret wireless weapon. B)

 

[PlanoMike]

I spoke with Elk Tech support earlier today and they thought Wifi was the culprit as well. I suspect it is not so much a matter of brand of router as it is noise in one's environment. I suspect that the ElkRP software over RS232 was no designed for occasional breaks in the connection as might occur with wireless.

 

[Mike]

Check the router logs, if it has that feature. I found a Linksys firewall router doing the same thing. One thing that helped was turning of uPnP, but it was still not stable at certain times.

I wound up buying a dlink to replace it. Different case here, but start searching and you may find others with that router having similar issues.

Possibility: If your firmware is not up to date, maybe the issue was fixed...

 

[opie]

Well after 3.5 hours connected via hardwire I agree the wireless is the culprit. For me it doesn't really drop enough to be a big problem but it is nice to know why.

 

[mustangcoupe]

I use a motorola WR850G router and have a intergrated intel proset/wireless card in my laptop.

The motolola router is baised on the broadcom chipset that the linksys wrt54g are also built using. And Mike had problems with a linksys....

I have great coverage, but found the laptop card made a diffrence... I originally had problems in the same seat I am in now with an pcmcia wifi card... windows says my connection is excellent (5 bars)