Access point messes up wifi equipment?

[SV Demeter]

We have had a problem with our wifi gear that I can now definitively link to a specific access point here in Tortola. A week ago we came in to village cay and after buying drinks at the village cay restaurant we got the wifi password. No trouble connecting or using wifi at bar with iPhones. Returned to boat and located access point with our ubiquity bullet and tried to connect. Once I did this I was no longer able to access air OS or my wireless router. Went through a bunch of steps with the ever helpful Bob of Islandtime PC and eventually got everything working again while in another harbor.

This morning we retuned to village cay and I tried connecting again to the restaurant wifi thinking it was just a coincidence that my gear got screwed up and that it couldn't be possible for an access point to mess up a router or the bullet. Well I was wrong. After trying to connect I could no longer get into my router and therefore not into my bullet. After hitting the reset button on the router and reinstalling the config file I'm able to get into the router but still not the bullet. Think I need to get out of range of this access point and try reconfiguring the router then.

Has anyone else ever had an access point mess with your wifi gear?

SV Demeter

[sabray]

Sounds like your device or ap is not associated with the correct device. Run the configuration utity on both and reset up. Only problem I have seen is everyone using default frequency.

[EzzyD]

or it could be a problem that it is using the same default network as you are trying to use on your internal network.

Are you using your ubiquity in router/nat mode?

When you have your iphone in the bar, what IP does it get?

Before you associate, what is your LAN IP. After you associate what do you have for the WAN IP and LAN IP?

[muttnik]

Originally Posted by EzzyD

or it could be a problem that it is using the same default network as you are trying to use on your internal network.

+1. Details of your internal wireless setup needed for complete explanation (a wireless router mentioned? How is the bullet configured) but best guess the bar's AP is giving out addresses which conflict with your boat's LAN address range. When attempting to talk to airOS it thinks the route back to you is via the external interface, so replies aren't getting back to you. Easiest solution: Choose a more obscure network range from the RFC 1918 private addresses for your internal network? i.e. if you're using something like 192.168.1.0/24, try something more like 192.168.219.0/24.

[SV Demeter]

Bullet is set to router mode. My wireless router is set with dhcp turned off so the bullet hands out ip and passes thru wireless router to other devices on boat. LAN ports on both boat computers are fried so I can't get into the bullet wired. Will have to move to another anchorage to further diagnose but am nursing a slipped disc in lower back

[jeroenimo]

The bullet is running the latest firmware? When the on board AP is configured as a bridge and the bullet in router mode, the bullet should not be passing through any DHCP requests to the Bar's AP.
I would almost think that the bullet could be fried because of physical damage? You are sure that there is no water inside or any other (electrical) damage done to the bullet? Is the power supply of the bullet still in working order?

Hope you recover soon from your slipped disc..

J.

[muttnik]

Originally Posted by SV Demeter

Bullet is set to router mode.

As EzzyD suggested, see what IP address you get in that bar with a phone or laptop.
If you know what addresses your bullet normally hands out, are they on the same subnet? (if you don't have that info, you'll have to wait until you get away and fix your wifi to find out). If so there's your answer. Might be something else but pays to cross the obvious thing off the list first

[SV Demeter]

Sitting at the bar i see my iPhone has been given a ip of 10.10.10.129 and my wife's laptop wa given 10.10.10.238. Subnet is 255.255.255.

[muttnik]

Originally Posted by SV Demeter

Sitting at the bar i see my iPhone has been given a ip of 10.10.10.129 and my wife's laptop wa given 10.10.10.238. Subnet is 255.255.255.

if your bullet is configured to give out addresses which start 10.10.10 there's your problem. Change the LAN side to be something few people will set up their kit for. If not, the problem is elsewhere, but always good to discount the obvious first

[seandepagnier]

I have had rain, sun, and wind, all destroy wifi adapters, but those are just forces of natures.

I guess in theory em if powerful enough could fry it, but that seems unlikely. Another possibility, most likely if you are running the windows operating system, is it could have implanted a worm virus which could do just about anything, but then the adapter would work on a different computer.

The current one I have to reset like 10 times each time I plug it in before it works, but then it works for hours, so it's just a glitch.

[SV Demeter]

Not really sure what caused router and bullet to get screwed up but it was a result of connectin to a specific accesspoint. With the help of the amazing Bob Stewart from Island Time PC we are back up and everything is working again. Something was able to mess up the configuration of the router at least I thnk that's what he problem ended up being. Was not a case of Conflicting IPs.

[colemj]

And save the known good configuration file. In the future, simply swap it back in at any question of problem.

Mark

[SV Demeter]

Yeah I saved and was able to reinstall the config file. I'm just still trying to figure out how some accesspoint could wipe out the configuration of my wireless router? Weird stuff.