Hi, I keep having issues in dropping connection with my Whole Home Discs lately. up to twice a week sometimes.
I checked the log, it seems like there are a bunch of "debug" messages before or around the time I found the connection drop.
I had to restart my Whole Home WiFi system via the web GUI every time (via a wired connected device, both to the modem router)
I have changed ISP to TalkTalk FTTP 500M fibre plan back in Aug, but this only started happening in the last month or so.
Below is a snippet of the log before I manually trigger a restart. Can anyone shed some light on this is a problem with my router? or something to do with the Whole Home disc(s)?
22.11.2021 15:44:04 [0 5 0] ATDP - Old Device Leave [--:--:--:--:--:--]
22.11.2021 15:44:04 [0 5 0] ATDP - Old Device Leave [--:--:--:--:--:--]
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] OWL-Device3(--:--:--:--:--:--) leave topology
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]Mem:used 66832 free 55304, CPU:usr 2 sys 12
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]Process 'owl -conf' number is 18
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]Check other process OK
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]Current 24G Channel Load is 20, 5G Channel Load is 3
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]last sniff uptime is 57366, now uptime is 57396
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]The bssid of the interface apcli0 is Not-Associated
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]The bssid of the interface apclii0 is Not-Associated
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]brctl show
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]br0 8000.4c1b8638f93d no ra0
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG] rai0
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG] eth2
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG] ra2
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG] rai2
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]br1 8000.4a0b8638f93d no apcli0
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]br2 8000.4a0b8638f93e no apclii0
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]br3 8000.000000000000 no
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]24G AVG RSSI is = , 5G AVG RSSI is = .
22.11.2021 15:44:10 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]ATDP statistics: Discover Rx=37935, Discover Tx=57106, Notify Rx=37962, Notify Tx=114212, Query Rx=37972, Query Tx=38021, Response Rx=70000, Response Tx=37972
22.11.2021 15:44:12 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]Ping GW 192.168.0.1 result: 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 00x2acket loss
22.11.2021 15:44:14 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]ATDP statistics: Discover Rx=37935, Discover Tx=57109, Notify Rx=37962, Notify Tx=114218, Query Rx=37972, Query Tx=38021, Response Rx=70000, Response Tx=37972
22.11.2021 15:44:14 [2 4 2] [DEBUG]eth_block_inf(NULL)
22.11.2021 15:44:15 [2 4 2] OWL-Device2(--:--:--:--:--:--) leave topology
22.11.2021 15:45:25 [2 4 1] HTTP-User login from 192.168.0.11.
22.11.2021 15:46:03 [2 4 2] OWL-Reboot request from GUI.
I have also updated my FW from v1.02.12 build02 to v1.02.13 build07 AFTER this restart, hoping to improve the recent hiccups in connection.
Any suggestion is welcome!
Hi @jw0ng, sorry that you're having to reboot the discs as they keep losing the connection. Give the Whole Home Wifi Product Helpdesk a call as they'll be best placed to help you with this.
cheers
John
After turning it off, it has been stable for a few weeks. But then revert back to how this has been - dropping connection between satellite discs without warning and apparent reason. The main disc remains connected to the internet and I was able to login to web portal to trigger a restart of it. Then all connection resumed. But this could happen as many as every few hours... Very annoying!!
01.01.2022 11:29:46 [DEBUG]eth_block_inf(NULL)
01.01.2022 11:29:46 [DEBUG]ATDP statistics: Discover Rx=148988, Discover Tx=224273, Notify Rx=149168, Notify Tx=448546, Query Rx=149258, Query Tx=149490, Response Rx=149341, Response Tx=149258
01.01.2022 11:29:44 [DEBUG]Ping GW 192.168.0.1 result: 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 00x2acket loss
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]ATDP statistics: Discover Rx=148988, Discover Tx=224270, Notify Rx=149168, Notify Tx=448540, Query Rx=149258, Query Tx=149490, Response Rx=149341, Response Tx=149258
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]24G AVG RSSI is = , 5G AVG RSSI is = .
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]br3 8000.000000000000 no
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]br2 8000.4a0b8638f93e no apclii0
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]br1 8000.4a0b8638f93d no apcli0
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG] rai2
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG] ra2
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG] eth2
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG] rai0
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]br0 8000.4c1b8638f93d no ra0
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
01.01.2022 11:29:42 [DEBUG]brctl show
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]The bssid of the interface apclii0 is Not-Associated
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]The bssid of the interface apcli0 is Not-Associated
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]last sniff uptime is 0, now uptime is 224924
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]Current 24G Channel Load is 21, 5G Channel Load is 5
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]Check other process OK
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]Process 'owl -conf' number is 17
01.01.2022 11:29:41 [DEBUG]Mem:used 66600 free 55536, CPU:usr 0 sys 6
Did you get anywhere sorting this?
Ya, sort of.
still not sure what had caused that, but had to reset the whole system.
contacted BT support and they gave me a different set to try, still have the same problem when configured it to use my old SSID and pw
Eventually, I had to reset the Whole Home system and change my wifi SSID and password to something I have never used before. Then I started to reconnect my devices one by one and keep on monitoring.
Seems like sorted itself out. To make sure it won’t cause me more issues, I sort of threw money to the problem by upgrading the Whole Home system to the WiFi 6 black version (more like an excuse to upgrade for me 😅).
Seems stable now. But it was a pain at the back side for over 2-3 months trying to diagnose what went wrong. And I still don’t know what had caused that!