Posts by Reddirt

Thanks for the input. I looked at the powerline devices as well and from what I read the best performance is when the send/rec boxes are on the same circuit. Results vary from stellar to medium depending on what other devices are on the system. I'd hate to think my internet would take a hit when the wife plugged in her monster vacuums. Ouch!

I thought I might share my experience to help anyone having wifi blues with Kodi. Certainly wifi is simple solution to connect anywhere around the home or office but not without it's downside. Slow speeds and occasional packet loss and maybe more than just occasional. Just the nature of wifi. I have found the best way to enjoy Kodi is over a cat5 cable hands down. Just moved into a newer home with coax to every room but no easy way to run an ethernet cable. A bit research and I found a solution to share. Ethernet over coax. The unit I purchased came in at just under $100 US but the results are very surprising. One device at each end of the coax and I recorded 270Mbps at the router source 250Mbps at the destination through coax. Way better than I had hoped. There are several units to pick from online and I opted for the Nexuslink GCA-1200 model. Easy to setup and done. Adding additional end units is also possible so as long as the coax is not being used for cable TV a great solution for homes without cat5 connections.

Like I tell my wife " Did you try turning it off and on again?"

I was able to resolve this one but not sure exactly how or why. When I clicked on enter the ssid passphrase it seemed to do nothing. Would not connect although it did show my network. After the third or fourth try I got "Connected" with a star. I don't quite understand but it does work so yay!

Well damn! Got moved to new home and still working out ethernet cabling issues. Thought I might try to setup my Realtek AC1200 m usb adapter with LE11.0.1 X86 Gen/legacy build. I'm stumped as to if this will work or am I doomed to trip over cables for awhile? I assume there might be a driver that needs to be installed? Any help here appreciated.

I wanted to report that I tested this build on all my hardware with no issues whatsoever. Asus i7 system, Gigabyte i3 HTPC, Asus i5 Laptop and Lenovo AMD A9 Laptop. Kudos to all that make this possible. Regards to the team!

As always thanks guys for keeping Chrome alive and kicking.

I decided to try one more thing and used the 8-31 12.0 legacy build and all is right with LE on the Lenovo. Wifi working as expected, no skin issues and no video issues. Weather service working. Took me awhile to get here but well worth the effort. I expanded my knowledge of the system a bit and gained a new appreciation for all the folks at LE. You guys rock and thanks!

Thanks for the tip. I was having trouble navigating the way to the right build. Finally managed to try the 08 31 build on the Lenovo. Good news is wifi is functional but I had problems with everything I tried. Confluence skin when I clicked on LE settings it hung up and reverted to original skin. I couldn't enter the location for the weather either. Video for this version using Confluence was interesting too. Move the mouse and static on the screen. I know it's work in progress so I will to hold off and use the Windows version (yuk) till this gets sorted out.

Thanks again for your efforts. I'm a bit lost on where to find and download the nightly 12.0 package.

I figured it out. Will give this a go today and once again thank you.

I figured out maybe connect with cat5 to router is my only way. Viola!

http://ix.io/4F3b

Yes I have used ssh in the past. I might be missing something here but without a device url how would I connect with ssh?

I've never opened the hood of LE to see what's inside. Exactly how do I run "dmesg | paste" ?

Hope I understand what you need.dmesg.txt

I think I did this right and here's the output from Linux. Sorry for being such a pain.lshw.txt

I updated the drivers to the latest available but so far still no luck. I'll try a fresh install later and see if there is difference. As always thanks for the help.

Here goes:

kodi.log

kodi.log

i think the first log was the wrong file this should be correct log. Sorry.

I gave it a try and got "Failed to paste log" I also tried this usb drive in an Intel laptop and got the same "Failed to paste log. Try again"