Easy way to change wireless networks?
Mack002:
Quote from: Shale on August 02, 2013, 02:19:20 pm
When you want to roam from access point to access point, usually you have the same SSID and password on on each access point. This is not an OBiWiFi-specific statement.
The really weird thing I think I understand is that the WiFi password must be entered in hex rather than using a passphrase which is common. When you enter a passphrase into a router, that is hashed to hex. There is a common hash algorithm that converts phrase to hex, but I have not seen anybody post about using such a thing in a separate program. I suspect that would work fine. Maybe it is described somewhere, but I have not seen it.
Shale, your post is really interesting.
Have you seen the Wifi configuration section on the browser Obi202 configuration page? It has 20 places to collect information on 20 access points - SSID, password, and whether to show the characters of the password. Do you have any idea what ObiHai's plan is for this many access points? Maybe something that is not fully working now?
I plan to play with this in a few days, and I will definitely post back with results (and questions).
Shale:
I had not, but now I have. I see there is one PreferredAccessPoint, but 20 total. If the preferred one is not available, I don't know how it proceeds. Try in order of list? Look for strongest? Your tests will be informative.
Mack002:
I could not figure out how the Obi202 handles two or more wireless networks. I entered my two wireless access points into the setup file. I chose in setup which one was preferred. Sometimes the Obi would connect to the preferred access point, sometimes not. What it did seemed random. I believe that the software for wireless access is not fully installed yet. If anybody gets it figured out, I wish you'd post here.
I did figure out one way to easily change which internet access my Obi uses - either DSL through a router, or a wireless connection to a Verizon Jetpack access point. What I did is enter into the Obi setup file the SSID and password of the Jetpack access point (and only the Jetpack access point). I can connect - via ethernet - to my router and its DSL connection and the Obi connects to the DSL connection. If I remove the ethernet cable (coming from my router) from the Obi and power cycle the Obi, it will connect to the Jetpack access point. On re-inserting the ethernet cable coming from the router and power cycling the Obi, the Obi will connect to my DSL connection. If both are connected, the Obi seems to prefer the ethernet connection over a wireless connection. If only the wireless connection is available, the Obi will connect to it.
There are so many access points listed in the setup file that Obihai must have further plans for that technology. We'll see what happens.
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