weve had this a while and never had any bother, but at last nights gig the wifi just wouldn't connect, half the time the mixer wasn't visible in the connection list, and when it was it just wouldn't connect. The mixer was very close to the pubs wifi repeater, could this have been the cause?
ended up doing half the gig with the lead vocal mic straight in to the PA tops, and my helix through a poor little 8" monitor running flat out
ive heard people do have bother with them so what's the answer? Hard-wired Ethernet (is that a thing for an iPad) buy a laptop or an external router? If the latter what do I need? There seems to be loads of old Virgin ones an eBay, would that do?
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I just use a cheap dual band router, did the sound for a local festival this weekend 3 days solid with hundreds of people and no connection issues.
The faster response made a big for me eg ringing out monitors using the rta is way easier.
The facebook x-air group is worth joining and full of helpful tips.
Get the router locked down: non-discoverable, password protected. You don’t want people trying to break into it and disrupt your gig.
We also carry a laptop which we hardwire into the router. Not essential, but I like belt and braces. Our main use for the laptop is to record the gig, multi-channel, straight from the desk.
seems to be very tolerant of environment and I have an XR18 as well as using Wi-fi for lights etc
2.4GHz is shit.
Go 5 Gig or go home.
Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
My mixer connection (Yamaha TF-Rack wired into an Asus RT-N66U) has been rock-solid since I turned off 2.4GHz on the router and went exclusively 5Ghz. My guitar wireless is much better too (Line6 G90).
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I've got various Ubiquiti devices kicking around from when I used to work for them so I might try one of those instead of the Asus RT-N66U.
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You'll save time and won't get angry at an unresponsive bit of kit.
We got a XR18 that we nearly sent back coz of constant wifi drop outs issues.
Once we got an external quad band router set on 5ghz only, all the problems went away.
I can't imagine gigging without the xr18 now.
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