• Wierd Wifi on Pi400

    From alister@3:770/3 to All on Fri Nov 6 20:39:24 2020
    Having a strange problem on my Pi400

    after it sucsesfully authenticates on the Wifi it almost always fails to
    get a valid IP address & adopts a 169.254.x.x address.
    I am not using my routers DHCP server but have dnsmasq on another server because I hve equipment that needs additional options.
    The problem is considerable less if i use the guest network (which does
    get dhcp from the router) but even that fails to renew correctly &
    reverts to a 169.254.x.x address. it also fails to reconnect correctly
    after a reboot needit a number of disconnects

    The same SD card works without issue in a Pi4B

    I do suspect the Virmin Media stupid humb 3 may be playing some part as connecting to my mobile phane as a hot spot has sofar failed to exhibit
    these issues.

    This may be the final excuse i need to ditch VM wifi but would like to
    know that what ever i buy will not have the same problem






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  • From Andy Burns@3:770/3 to alister on Sat Nov 7 07:49:50 2020
    alister wrote:

    This may be the final excuse i need to ditch VM wifi

    If you manually assign an IP addr on the Pi, how reliable is a ping to a
    wired device on your LAN? much packet loss?

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  • From Ottavio Caruso@3:770/3 to alister on Sat Nov 7 08:00:48 2020
    On 06/11/2020 20:39, alister wrote:
    Having a strange problem on my Pi400

    after it sucsesfully authenticates on the Wifi it almost always fails to
    get a valid IP address & adopts a 169.254.x.x address.

    How do you connect to wifi? Have you tried using dhcpcd-ui?


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  • From alister@3:770/3 to alister on Sat Nov 7 09:28:19 2020
    On Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:39:24 +0000, alister wrote:

    Having a strange problem on my Pi400

    after it sucsesfully authenticates on the Wifi it almost always fails to
    get a valid IP address & adopts a 169.254.x.x address.
    I am not using my routers DHCP server but have dnsmasq on another server because I hve equipment that needs additional options.
    The problem is considerable less if i use the guest network (which does
    get dhcp from the router) but even that fails to renew correctly &
    reverts to a 169.254.x.x address. it also fails to reconnect correctly
    after a reboot needit a number of disconnects

    The same SD card works without issue in a Pi4B

    I do suspect the Virmin Media stupid humb 3 may be playing some part as connecting to my mobile phane as a hot spot has sofar failed to exhibit
    these issues.

    This may be the final excuse i need to ditch VM wifi but would like to
    know that what ever i buy will not have the same problem

    After posting on the raspberrypi.org forum it seems I am not the only one
    with this problem when using a Virgin Media Superhub 3

    It is being investigated by the RPF



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  • From alister@3:770/3 to Andy Burns on Sat Nov 7 09:26:08 2020
    On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 07:49:50 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

    alister wrote:

    This may be the final excuse i need to ditch VM wifi

    If you manually assign an IP addr on the Pi, how reliable is a ping to a wired device on your LAN? much packet loss?

    when connected pings are fine




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  • From Pancho@3:770/3 to alister on Sat Nov 7 10:28:21 2020
    On 07/11/2020 09:28, alister wrote:

    After posting on the raspberrypi.org forum it seems I am not the only one with this problem when using a Virgin Media Superhub 3


    Superhub: Modem mode, you know it makes sense.

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  • From alister@3:770/3 to Pancho on Sat Nov 7 23:35:26 2020
    On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:28:21 +0000, Pancho wrote:

    On 07/11/2020 09:28, alister wrote:

    After posting on the raspberrypi.org forum it seems I am not the only
    one with this problem when using a Virgin Media Superhub 3


    Superhub: Modem mode, you know it makes sense.

    indeed
    now i know it is not just me, it may be the final push

    work arround for me at the present is to either use a usb wifi adaptor or connect a lan cable, neither are particularly troublesome



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