Moving my WiFi router

Here's my system:

- Ion at rear orchestra, connected via Net 2 to a local switch, one port that has a cheap Netgear router connected and that is sitting on the console table. The local switch then connects via dedicated Cat 5 to the system.

- Backstage is the Electronics Control Rack, with the e-net patchbay and a Dell PoE 32 port switch, which has all the Net2 running thru it, to the console, dimmer racks, node's, etc...

The Netgear works fine and was/is reliable at allowing a constant WiFi with my aRFR app on my Galaxy tablet as well as on my former phone, an HTC with aRFR.

Since switching to an iPhone 4S the iRFR app cannot maintain a steady connection. Thinking the range - 200 ft line-of-sight mostly, might be an issue.

Is it as simple as relocating the Netgear router to backstage and plugging into the PoE switch ?. Will it be plug-and-play or do I have to re-configure it all over again ?.

Thanks in advance

Steve Bailey

Brooklyn College

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tdrga over 12 years ago

Unless your network is highly configured (it doesn't sound like it), the Netgear router will work without configuration changes when moved to backstage and plugged into the POE switch.

Your iPhone connection issues may be a different problem- it seems that there are some people having trouble keeping connections with various flavors of iPhones. I don't use one, so I can't verify this first-hand. There were some threads on this a while ago and I'm not sure if a resolution was reached.

-Todd
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Steve Bailey over 12 years ago in reply to tdrga

Thanks Todd

I'll move the router anyway but will research the iPhone dropout issues as well.

SB
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hydrogen over 12 years ago in reply to Steve Bailey

The iphone dropout issue was fixed last spring. As long as your apps are up to date that shouldn't be an issue
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Steve Bailey over 12 years ago in reply to hydrogen

The phone was purchased new in early 9/12. The app shortly after, so all should be up-to-date.
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Steve Bailey over 12 years ago in reply to hydrogen

The phone was purchased new in early 9/12. The app shortly after, so all should be up-to-date.
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jrgoss over 12 years ago in reply to Steve Bailey

I have has some success with entering a static IP address on my iPhone when connectivity is an issue. It seems to me that in order to conserve battery, the iPhone shuts off the wifi when it goes to sleep (or you hit the lock button on top), thus dropping the connection to the console. I could be totally wrong, but this has been my experience on both an iPad & several generations of the iPhone.
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Steve Bailey over 12 years ago in reply to jrgoss

Finally figured out that the connection isn't dropping so long as the app is running and phone on. It was when I turned off the phone to save battery life, that the connection gets dropped. That's different then the aRFR app.

Not a big deal once I'm aware of what happens and knowing that I should not turn off the phone, just go back to the home screen to avoid unwanted button pushes when I stick the phone in my hip pouch.

SB
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