Wireless Issue Solved

[ssvt]

I thought I'd post this on the off chance someone else was having a similar problem. Apologies if this isn't an appropriate place to post this.

Last year I built a simple FreeNAS box (AMD E-350D APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 8g ECC RAM, 6t storage) and started seeing my house wireless network randomly start dropping connections. I noticed if I shut the FreeNAS box down the problem stopped. It took me a while but I finally noticed the motherboard i/o plate on the back of the Cooler Master Elite case I'm using wasn't seated properly. As soon as I secured it, the wireless issue went away. I'm guessing there was enough RF floating around the room because of the loose plate it disrupted my AP which was only a few feet away.

BTW, FreeNAS-9.10.1 has been absolutely a joy. I've been using it to hold my data and as a Plex server and it has been rock-steady. Thanks!

 

[nojohnny101]

Interesting. I wonder how long it would have taken me to find that, seems like one of the last things to be checked.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[joeschmuck]

Very odd problem to have. Maybe you need a Faraday cage placed around your FreeNAS computer, and see, another reason to not use AMD :D. Yea, I said it, an AMD promoter.

 

[ssvt]

Very odd problem to have. Maybe you need a Faraday cage placed around your FreeNAS computer, and see, another reason to not use AMD :D. Yea, I said it, an AMD promoter.

You'd think! It reminds me that 25 years ago one of the "experts" in PC Magazine said we'd never see a PC with a clock speed higher than 100 Mhz because there wouldn't be a way to stop the RFI...