Month

October 2016
19
Oct

Power Problems (We Think)

Referring to the events of Day Sixty-One (Boot Loop), Aaron and I believe we may have solved the problem. The BreezeLite was possibly not booting due to power stability issues. At home, I was running the BreezeLite off a power board which was plugged into another power board. Now, before you complain about safety issues, the...
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15
Oct

Boot Loop.

I took the BreezeLite home to work on it over the weekend. There were a number of boot problems, so I first had to reinstall Ubuntu. The wireless adapter was working, so I ensured “Download updates while installing Ubuntu” was checked. I chose to completely erase the disk and install ubuntu fresh because I wasn’t in a...
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14
Oct

Trade Embargo

With yesterday’s WiFi tests a resounding success, Aaron and I decided to transfer the wireless adapter from the laptop to the BreezeLite. The drivers did not automatically install within the Ubuntu environment, however that was what we expected. I downloaded the official drivers from TP-Link, however when I tried to build them, we were drowned in...
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12
Oct

No Strings Attached

Aaron and I ran a number of WiFi range tests using the Xirrus Access Point as the access point (no surprises there) and the TP-Link Archer T4U 1200AC USB Wireless Adapter on a laptop. They measured signal strength using WirelessMon 4.0 by PassMark. The route taken during the test was filmed and the WirelessMon results were...
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