Slightly OT? WiFi problems

[rikona]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 12:31:06 -0800
MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:36 AM rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 10:13:56 -0800
> > MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> :
> >
> > I have a mesh router and that has helped reliability over a wider
> > area. I found it helps to keep them high up [near ceiling, not
> > floor] with not much 'stuff' around them. Even so, every once in a
> > while, some strange undetermined thing happens. I used to spend a
> > lot of time trying to fix it and in the end just rebooted
> > everything. Now I do the reboot earlier on in the process - that
> > has helped to save some time. May not know what happened, but it
> > works... 
> 
> I have rebooted everything on the line, more than once, and every
> other computer in the house does not have this problem (maybe a big
> glaring finger - this machine's wifi is failing...).
> 
> I reported solution too soon.  Now it is doing exactly the same thing
> as before - no recognition of the router  or wifi (in home), just
> someone else's from outside.
> 
> So I must ask again: where can I look (logs or traces or whatever)
> that might give me clue as to why this thing works, then doesn't, then
> works, then doesn't.
> 
> It is truly frustrating and not even just a little bit disturbing to
> have rock solid connections everywhere else in the house and nothing
> from that one location.

Is it the location [no device works there] or the device [doesn't work
at any location]?