EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.

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EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
2021-01-28 00:56:15
Model: EAP225  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 2.20.1 and 5.0.0

Why do I have to reboot my EAP225 before a Raspberry Pi Zero W will connect to it in a way that actually allows data to pass?

After a few hours the connection goes dead again.

Is TP-Link's implementation of 2.4GHz WiFi really brain dead?

 

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Re:EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
2021-01-30 13:53:36

@BrianG61UK 

 

The Raspberry Pi Zero W has a really old low power b/g/n class chipset and from experience found this doesn't like 40mhz wide channels

 

Try setting the width on the 2,4ghz to 20mhz with N only (if possible) and this might be more stable.    From my experience with Pi devices like this, it causes the same problems regardless of vendors.. sadly too common!

 

 

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Re:EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
2021-01-31 01:50:48

@Philbert Thank you. I was already using 20MHz but I will try different combinations of bandwidth and mode to see if any work better. Weirdly I can see that the Pi Zero W usually manages to get an IP address assigned by DHCP but then nothing else will transfer over the connection.

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Re:EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
2021-02-01 03:16:35

@BrianG61UK Nothing works. :(

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Re:EAP225 won't reliably connect to Raspberry Pi Zero W.
2021-02-01 11:43:49

@BrianG61UK 

 

Did you try WPA2 using TKiP?

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