The July update brought support for my TrendNet TEW-804UB Wi-Fi USB dongle on my Pi2. It connects to my network, and claims to have a good connection. It has never once given me any errors about the connection dropping or failing to connect.
Yet, I get frequent “hangs” while streaming audio/video over wireless. A video will just freeze on the screen. Some times, OSMC will recover. Other times, a reboot is required to get OSMC back to any menu. When OSMC freezes me out, I have always been able to log in via SSH and run a reboot command (I don’t know a shell command to un-freeze it, or I would do that instead).
My access point’s logs show no disconnects. I have run ping tests, both from a workstation to OSMC, and using SSH to have OSMC ping my router. Neither of the ping tests show any drops, though there is the rare lag spike (single ping spike upwards of 2-3 seconds) indicating the occasional “hiccup” in the wireless connection. shrug I live in a large metropolitan area… that’s pretty much unavoidable. 99.9% of the time, pings are under 2ms. For wireless, that’s acceptable.
I have never been able correlate one of these spikes with any time OSMC freezes up while playing.
But the occasional wireless “hiccup” should not be enough to completely stall out OSMC.
OSMC works flawlessly if I drag a patch cable to it… but who wants to have to do that?
Anyone know what I can do to get OSMC behaving itself?
I’ve already increased the network buffer to the max that my Pi2 will support. All that seems to have accomplished is that it takes a little longer before playback begins.
Thanks