Re: Brennan ISP address

[Anthony Hill]

IP address 192.168.0.26 is on your local network.  The other sites you connect to are most likely out on the internet.

When you power on your b2, an IP address is most likely "assigned" to your b2 by your wifi router.  Unfortunately, your router might assign a different address sometimes! That means that you need to check the display on your b2 each time you start it to see what address has been used.  Did you do so the times you were unable to connect?

To fix this, you might be able to setup your wifi router to always assign the same address. You have access to your router's setup (typically a web page available at somewhere like 192.168.0.1) and then figure out how to have it assign static IP addresses to specific MAC addresses.  Alternatively, it might be possible to hack the Pi's Linux setup to use a fixed IP address.  I've just started looking into how to do that.

Tony

[casemoree]

Hi Tony. It seems that virgin media - my provider - does not offer static ip address on residential accounts.

Mike

[Anthony]

That's pretty much standard - ISP's providing residential internet seldom make static IP addresses available.  Or if they do, it's an extra cost.

But that does not matter here.  Your b2 is on your local LAN - not out on the internet or WAN.  The address it uses is assigned locally by your wireless router - not Virgin Media.

Google LAN vs WAN if you don't follow this description.  You'll find a lot of stuff like lan-and-wan-local-area-network-and-wide-area-network .

Also, if you do a little digging you can probably find instructions on how to configure your home wifi router so that your b2 always uses the same network address on your LAN.  For example :

https://help.virginmedia.com/system/templates/selfservice/vm/help/customer/locale/en-GB/portal/200300000001000/article/HELP-2427/Configure-Advanced-Settings-on-your-Virgin-Media-Hub

Look for information on assigning a local static IP address based on a MAC address.

[Peter Orr]

I have a weird thing going on since I started using an external CD drive. All works fine as I initiate a rip using the UI because I want to see if the artwork is available (~50%). However, often (not always) I discover that at sometime during or after the rip the UI link via the home network gets dropped and I can't connect via the UI at the end of the rip by hitting the reload button on Safari. 

This not only stops me from checking whether the rip was successful using the UI, but also prevents me moving to the next CD to be ripped as the B2 no longer responds to the Rip button press. The fix involves having to reboot the B2 to restore the UI connection. Painful.

If I use the internal drive, the UI connection remains stable.

Any suggestions, apart from to stop using the external drive - it is much faster and I don't want to thrash the internal drive as I have over 1,000 more CDs to rip?

 

[PMB]

Hi Peter,

This sounds as if it maybe a WiFi interference issue. Try fitting the WiFi dongle onto a short USB extension cable and position the dongle away from the B2's metal case.

Paul

Brennan Support

[PMB]

Hi Peter,

Another thing to try, Martin has suggested a 'WiFi dongle with antenna' to improve WiFi reliability. The dongle does need to have the correct chipset i.e. RT5370. One customer has tried this one from Amazon with good results.

Paul

Brennan Support

[PMB]

Hi Peter,

Correction, the customer bought this dongle.

Paul

Brennan Support