G'day all,
have been feeding fr24 for 4 years, via linux the box thats circa 2003, its been fine until recently, all it does is fr24, GSM stuff, and media streaming, lately its had a few problems, USB ports cant provide much current, it gets upset with the dongle and gsm unit both plugged in, so i grabbed a spare pi 3b doing nothing but collecting dust for 2 years, with little spare time at present I decided on the pi24 image, that all seems to have worked well, no problems, quick and painless, but -
Since moving the dongle onto the rpi, the coverage has been, frankly, shit.
Used to average 130 nm, not much I know, but if you saw whats grown around the antenna in past 4 years you'd be shocked it does that well since the move to the pi several days ago, it averages a mere 52nm, has anyone else experienced reduction in range after such an install?
Also of note:
Tried a second dongle I use with my laptop to watch TV on another pc and it averages the same.
The dongle connects by a secured 2 foot usb cable, so initially the dongle and therefor antenna connections were not (could not be) moved, just cable out of linux box and into the pi in the same rack next to it, also put usb cable on a tester and its tests fine, dongles test fine averaging 100mAh (no led) and 112mAh (dongle with led) - the same as per the ol linux box and both average 5.07v.
Due to the failing nature of and refusal to work with with GSM unit in place (which can not be removed) on the old box I'm not really able to try it back there again. nly real time I can do that is after 1am, and theres bugger all fights around here at that time of day
have been feeding fr24 for 4 years, via linux the box thats circa 2003, its been fine until recently, all it does is fr24, GSM stuff, and media streaming, lately its had a few problems, USB ports cant provide much current, it gets upset with the dongle and gsm unit both plugged in, so i grabbed a spare pi 3b doing nothing but collecting dust for 2 years, with little spare time at present I decided on the pi24 image, that all seems to have worked well, no problems, quick and painless, but -
Since moving the dongle onto the rpi, the coverage has been, frankly, shit.
Used to average 130 nm, not much I know, but if you saw whats grown around the antenna in past 4 years you'd be shocked it does that well since the move to the pi several days ago, it averages a mere 52nm, has anyone else experienced reduction in range after such an install?
Also of note:
Tried a second dongle I use with my laptop to watch TV on another pc and it averages the same.
The dongle connects by a secured 2 foot usb cable, so initially the dongle and therefor antenna connections were not (could not be) moved, just cable out of linux box and into the pi in the same rack next to it, also put usb cable on a tester and its tests fine, dongles test fine averaging 100mAh (no led) and 112mAh (dongle with led) - the same as per the ol linux box and both average 5.07v.
Due to the failing nature of and refusal to work with with GSM unit in place (which can not be removed) on the old box I'm not really able to try it back there again. nly real time I can do that is after 1am, and theres bugger all fights around here at that time of day
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