I have 2 IMP-002 devices that have been successfully connecting to multiple wifi routers for some time. I recently got a new 5G mobile device from T-Mobile, an “inseego M2000 mifi”. This works with all my other devices as expected. Both the IMP devices appear to establish a connection (the M2000 lights up and says a device has connected) but after about 10 seconds the connection drops. There are no messages or indications on the IDE as to whether any comms was successful - device shows as “offline”. All settings on the mifi/M2000 are default. Any ideas?
I had a look at black box logs and there are periods where it can’t reconnect - for 20s (your connect timeout) it can’t find the SSID being broadcast at all, or isn’t responding to the associate requests. This sounds a little like band steering (APs that ignore requests on 2.4, hoping the device gives up and moves to 5.8).
A quick look at the M2000 manual doesn’t show an option to disable steering though.
The other thing I noticed is that sometimes the signal from the router is waaaay too strong (eg -9dBm, -14dBm, -12dBm). WiFi spec is, as I remember, -28dBm being the strongest signal supported for 11g/n.
Hugo - thanks for reply - the router is very close to the Imp (I’ve been developing with router/mifi on my desk next to the Imp). I’ll try move it further away?!
Hugo - I moved the Mifi away from one dev device (233635b930728cee / 0c:2a:69:03:a1:93) - put it in next room (about 30 feet away). I force the device to try to connect to the Mifi on boot, and I have the Mifi set up to beep when a new device connects. Sure enough, the Mifi beeps, but the connection drops after a few seconds, and the device successfully connects to the next wifi in its search loop (my main house wifi).
Hugo - thanks for help - I did some more digging and found others having issues with some devices not connecting to this router. On a T-Mobile site I found this advice that seems to have fixed my issue:
On M2000 device/settings:
Change Network Technology from “Auto LET/5G” to “LTE/UMTS” (this really sucks because the only reason I got the M2000 was for 5G !!!)
Change APN from “fast.t-mobile.com” to “B2B.tmobile.com”
Change PDP from “IPV6V4” to “IPV4”
That’s… strange, and implies that the uplink from the M2000 is the issue (ie cell network side vs wifi side).
FWIW I have 5G disabled on my T-Mo iPhone too; around here 5G gives worse performance than LTE (same latency, worse bandwidth in back to back speedtests)