Today, Daniel showed up at Omni and did hours of work to fix the building-wide
wifi, but for some reason it's renamed _Omni Commons_ now (with the underscores
before and after)
We also got the login/password for the wifi system so we will be able to get a
better idea of what's going on with it if anything happens again.
For now, since the building wifi is working again (including the AP in
sudoroom), i switched off the TP-Link access point in sudoroom, so the
sudoroom-TPLINK and sudoroom-TPLINK_5 SSIDs are gone unless we need them.
Somebody should figure out where is "peoplesopen.net fast 65.149.193"
physically, because it does not provide internet or do anything helpful except
take up radio bandwidth and sow confusion. I couldn't find it. Get a
signal-strength app and hunt for it will you? And let us know where it was.
-jake
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022, Jake wrote:
tonight at sudoroom, i noticed that "the
internet" was not working very well,
and my phone was having trouble connecting at all to the wifi. And the
signal strength was very weak.
i tried "the internet" on the desktop computer on the 3d printer table, which
is wired into the ethernet (doesn't use wifi) and since it seemed to work
fine, i determined that something was wrong with the wifi.
i tried power-cycling the ruckus wifi controller (singular rackmount unit
that configures the many wifi access points throughout the building) and I
also power-cycled the main switch (which also powers most of those access
points) but nothing changed.
Then peter and I noticed that the access point in sudoroom (mounted to the
wood high above the wall-mounted TV telescreen) was not lighting up any LEDs
on the switch, indicating that it's not drawing power from the switch or
operating at all. That would explain the weak signal strength.
so I grabbed a black TP-LINK TL-WDR3600 from upstairs, and i configured it
(with the stock firmware) to be an access point on the network. its IP
address is 100.64.64.12 and it doesn't do any routing or dhcp. email me if
you want the login/password.
it provides two accesss points,
sudoroom-TPLINK and sudoroom-TPLINK_5
and it seems to work.
the ruckus wifi controller is listed in the Network wiki but nobody knows the
password (the login is probably admin) so we will probably have to
factory-reset the whole system in order to get back in. If anyone makes any
progress on that i would love to know.
the non-functioning ruckus hardware mounted high above the TV in sudoroom is
too high for me to reach, and i'm not motivated enough to get a ladder, and
it's not hurting anybody up there. But if we have more of them maybe we can
install another one so that the Omni Commons network can reach into here
again.
But for now, Omni Commons wifi is giving an "authentication error"
-jake