@young mulch starting a thread here
#eyes_consumer0980: wifi
quasi shell
young mulch
fire
quasi shell
is this at home, at work, at school?
young mulch
home
quasi shell
do you have just one router or access point? Where did it come from?
quasi shell
so, if you look on, say, your phone, do you see more than one strong local network, maybe with similar names? Like SOMETHING and SOMETHING_5G?
young mulch
yes
quasi shell
could you give the names? You can obfuscate part of it, but I'd like to see the suffixes on the names, etc.
young mulch
DIIF-5
quasi shell
change a few letters or numbers if you wish
young mulch
DIIF-YVAD
quasi shell
and is there DIIF also?
quasi shell
so you're trying to connect to DIIF-5? Can you connect to DIIF-YVAD instead?
quasi shell
how do you know DIIF-5 is 5 GHz only?
young mulch
it shows on my phone
young mulch
it says nothing about that one, probably because I haven't connected to it before
it uses wifi 4 it says
quasi shell
do you have android or iphone
quasi shell
so who administers DIIF-YVAD: your roomates, your parents, your children?
young mulch
no idea, it has appeared rather recently
there used to be DIIF-5 (my network) and DIIF
quasi shell
eh, not sure I understand, this is a router in your own home?
young mulch
yes
quasi shell
and you live there with other people?
quasi shell
in an apartment building or something? The router is not physically in your apartment?
it's shared among all the tenants??
young mulch
I live in a triplex, the router is in my portion of the triplex
there are multiple family members in my side using my network
quasi shell
so who pays the bills for the internet service?
young mulch
my parents
quasi shell
so would they be the ones who might have changed the name of the network?
quasi shell
but someone changed it, your sibling, your cousin??
young mulch
nope
quasi shell
someone has the admin passowrd
young mulch
yes
quasi shell
and who is that person?
young mulch
we all have it
you are reffering to the password you put in to connect to the wifi network right?
quasi shell
no, the password to log into the router itself to change its settings
sometimes it's on a sticker on the router
I mean, if the network changed, someone changed it, who might that be?
does "YVAD" mean anything?
young mulch
well the network we have been using hasn't been changed
young mulch
does "YVAD" mean anything?
no
quasi shell
but you said it changed from "DIIF" to "DIIF-YVAD" at some point. Was that when the router got changed out by the company or anything?
young mulch
no, I said there used to be 2 networks: "DIIF-5" (the one we are still using) and "DIFF"
"DIIF" dissapeared fully and "DIIF-5" remained
and recently "DIFF-YVAD" appeared
quasi shell
so who might possibly have made that change? Any other relative who is computer savvy?
quasi shell
does anyone else in the triplex use DIIF-YVAD, or do you all use DIIF-5?
young mulch
from the same wifi provider
young mulch
does anyone else in the triplex use DIIF-YVAD, or do you all use DIIF-5?
only my family uses "DIFF-5"
the others use their own networks
quasi shell
do they all start with "DIIF", or do they have other names?
young mulch
there are other names
now that I look at it
almost all networks have a doppelganger
quasi shell
ok, so my guess is that "DIIF" is your own router. You could test that by unplugging it temporarily to see if "DIIF-YVAD" disappears. And you could log into the router if you can find the password, and reset the password for "DIIF-YVAD", and check whether it's a 2.4GHz network.
should you ask someone before doing this? Do you have any computer-savvy siblings?
young mulch
nope
keen iron
what shows up on the pi when you run the scan?
young mulch
I can just try unplugging the router and seeing what networks dissapear
young mulch
what shows up on the pi when you run the scan?
nmcli dev wifi list?
keen iron
yes
young mulch
11 networks
keen iron
ok, so at least some networks are 2.4
young mulch
yes
keen iron
but question is which of the 11 is yours?
quasi shell
but DIIF-5 appeared on the Pi?
quasi shell
i thought maybe you meant it DID show up
young mulch
no
keen iron
if it shows up on the pi, then it's not a 5GHz wifi
young mulch
it doesn't show up
quasi shell
so you see DIFF-YVAD, and you saw DIIF briefly??
young mulch
no another network named DIIF-[and something else here] appeared
not just DIIF
DIIF-eQ5c
keen iron
could be a range issue - too far away from router
young mulch
yes
so can't I just turn my network into 2.4
if I were to guess I'd say no because my network has a [5G] next to it while some others have [5G/2.4G]
keen iron
if you can (and know how to) access the router, then yes, you should be able to enable 2.4GHz
and set network name, password, etc.
if you do not have access to the router, then someone else will need to help with that
you can also just try connecting to one of the wifi names that does show up on the pi when scanning
assuming one of those has no password
keen iron
ok, check whether 2.4GHz is disabled
keen iron
internet facing, yes. local facing, generally no - there are commonly used local addresses.
young mulch
so looking at this thing
turns out
both DIIF-5 and DIIF-YVAD are on the same ip adress that I got off the router
so I assume that means both are mine
and I can change the password of both networks
also
DIIF-YVAD is 2.4 g
so I can just change the password and connect the pi to it
keen iron
try it
young mulch
should I check if any devices are connected to it
keen iron
probably. if others use it. or for your stuff.
young mulch
actually I don't have access to that since I don't know the current password
so ima change it and see if anything comes up
keen iron
if you do:
sudo nmcli --ask dev wifi connect DIIF-YVAD
and it asks for a password, then the pi is at least attempting to connect to it