Not really enough information to narrow down a cause.? How is the new router connected to your laptop?? Have you hardwired it so it becomes just an access point for your throttles or are you connecting to it wirelessly as well?? Have you had one of those wonderful surprise Windows updates that decides it wants to screw up every one of your settings between the two operating sessions?? Lately Micro$oft has been putting my laptop into airplane mode after each update.

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Any additional information will help.

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Mike Piazza

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of BRADLEY WHITE
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2019 2:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [jmriusers] Having issues connecting on closed Wifi

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Sorry if this a repeat issue. A few weeks ago I bought a wireless router to us just for the layout (no internet connection). I had been using the house WiFi but didn't feel like handing out my password to every operator.

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Installed the new router and every work?fine.I'm using a HP laptop with Windows 10.

This past weekend I had an op-session and could not get any Wi-throttles to connect to JMRI. If I switched?back to the house Wifi it worked fine. My laptop?and phones were connected to the new router. We just kept getting an "unable to connect" message on our phones.

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Just now I try testing it again and same issue. Works fine with house Wifi nothing?with?the new router (NETGEAR R6080)

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Thank you for your help

Bradley White

Div. 12 MCR

Superintendent?

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Bradley, what client app are you using? If EngineDriver, what version? Please post the complete error message you get when you try to connect manually.

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Thanks, Bradley,
That message shows that your phone and your server are not on the same network (*.2 vs *.3). Unless you are doing some sort of intentional bridging or routing to overcome that, you're not going to connect.
--SteveT

Steve,

That what I thought the message might be, but that's beyond?my skill set to figure it out how to fix it.

2 weeks ago when I first used the new router as soon as I plug the ether net cable in it would not me off my house wifi. Now nothing happens and I have to go into my wifi setting and "connect" to the layout router.

Bradley White

Div. 12 MCR

Superintendent?

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM Steve Todd <mstevetodd@...> wrote:

Thanks, Bradley,
That message shows that your phone and your server are not on the same network (*.2 vs *.3). Unless you are doing some sort of intentional bridging or routing to overcome that, you're not going to connect.
--SteveT

Since the home router is still there, I'm suspect if the phone was bouncing
between the two routers. If so, it would account for this loss and restore
of connections. As you move around, the phone would see one router as the
better path and then it would change which might be better. Also if the two
routers were overlapping on the Wi-Fi bands, that is more interference to
sort out by the phones. Last would be if they somehow had the same subnet,
if the train router was standalone, this could be the case, and if so, it
would get very confused when switching between them.

So, what is the Wi-Fi band and IP range of each router?

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team