You are right Wireless is never a substitute for a wire. However in this case I have no choice so wireless it is!
Now as to the actual problem I am pleased to say that it is resolved. Somehow (my son swears he didn't do this) the USB cord moved from the 5V slot to the .5V slot. Moved it over and all is good.
Same problem here, this is what I have done so far
I am using a RPi2 with a Linksys WUSB6300 connecting to a Linksys WRT1900. System has been working fine for quite a few years with OpenELEC then we started having problems a couple of months ago when I upgraded to LibreELEC. Initially was intermittent connection errors, mostly upon a short cycle of the system. We simply waited a few minutes and connected by hand.
Then I went away for a three day sailing trip and the issues really began. No end of text messages from the family letting me know there were problems! I came back last night, reproduced the error, confirmed all other wifi devices were working fine. Then did the following:
Rebooted the router; same issue.
On the router removed LibreELEC device; same issue.
Restore LibreELEC from a backup; same issue.
Tried a fresh install of LibreELEC; same issue.
Built and OSMC image; same issue. (bloatware! ugh)
Tried an old version of OpenELEC; same issue.
Went back to my original LibreELEC; same issue. (I expected as much wasn't going to try to debug with other systems)
Used my cell phone's hotspot; worked fine.
Went into the Linksys and cleared history of all devices; able to connect to my 5G network!
Unfortunately the problem is not yet solved.
I still have to connect to the network manually when rebooting.
When trying to add my 2.4G network to the system, get the "network error ..." message then system reboots.
I still experience random reboots even on low bandwidth/cpu/memory applications such as listening to streaming radio.
Your comment about streaming providers causing issues leads me to believe that there is some communication between Kodi and the providers. Unfortunately I have not found a rhyme or reason behind the streams which do not cache.
For example I've been watching an HD stream just fine this evening, paused the show to write this, and no forward caching occurs. Certainly the provider has proven their ability to serve the stream at speed for the last 13 minutes and 11 seconds.
Does make me wonder if Kodi somehow let the provider know that I paused the viewing.
Before I explain the situation you will want to know what version I am running: LibreELEC Kodi 17.x, and your next question will be to inquire as to the advance settings I have:
<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>339460608</memorysize>
<readfactor>20</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>
Now that those are out of the way:
The reason for writing is that random streaming providers will not cache, when this occurs I can quite often find a different provider that will cache just fine regardless of the quality of the stream. Symptoms on my end appear as if Kodi simply will not cache.
At first I thought it was the stream, then I noticed that shows which were playing would not cache when I paused them. I have tested this multiple times with pauses in excess of an hour (I am a slow learner.) For those times when the stream is not enough to keep the movie playing, and there is no caching, I will search until I can find one a stream that caches. This tactic works about half the time, and then there are days like today where I am not able to find a stream that caches. Thus this query.
A bit more background: I have only noticed this when I am streaming from the net. I have checked FAST.COM from other devices and am often in excess of 12MB download, I have checked FAST on Kodi with the same results. And before you ask Kodi is connected via WIFI, however on a dedicated 5GHZ channel. I am not using a VPN.
I welcome the community’s thoughts on this!
