update: wifi usb / scrambled channels on f5s talk talk router

ok,

more findings about the usb WiFi dongle on skyboxes.

my mates uncle called me to advised that he had no paid channels for a few days, so i went over to have a look.

For some reason the box had gone from green for WiFi under network to hard wired.

so i turned on the WiFi, rebooted box and was green. went into the settings and when in WiFi manager got 5 timed out connecting to their wireless router.

went to the settings on the talk talk router and was on wpa and channel 1.

i changed this to wpa2 and channel 6

rebooted router, went back to box and again 5 time outs on trying to connect to router. SO tried channel 2, all the same.

so i had a spare box with me (tested for 2 days at mine and all ok). before re posting. all the same above happened with the new box.

so after a head think, i changed the router to wpa/wp2 auto and put on channel 3

and it took a few seconds more but connected

rebooted box 12 times and got the 3 red boxes pop up and all connected ok

so this could be another thing to test before blaming servers.

so what did i learn:

try diff channels on the router for connection problems.