Unable to open mounted network drives

[Paul_oz53]

It's unlikely to work too well. You'll end up with the same MAC address appearing on more than one switch port at the same time. When that happens, some switches will disable that physical switch port for a period of time. That can translate to issues such as your WiFi router (or a big segment of your network) going off-line for 30 seconds or even several minutes when a device changes networks.

Get a proper mesh network that can perform proper handovers.

Thanks Peter. The problem seems to be the robots inbuilt mapping function not properly recognising the front room. Had thought it may be linked to the WiFi signal strength drop-off. Fortunately its only two Kindles that share the 2.4Ghz network and they are working OK.

We'll put the old Roomba in the front room and not worry about trying to sort the Ecovacs map issue.

[sub3R]

After observing that, I reserved the IP addresses for both U4s at the two highest addresses in the DHCP address list.

I’ll see what happens after the next power outage but I doubt allocating the higher addresses will fix the server/client issue because neither U4 loses its IP address as confirmed by my PC.

Well that didn’t make any improvement.

If I still get problems I may swap the TP-SG108s around so the latest version is at the router (v1.3 <-> v3).

And that didn’t make any improvement either.

But I tracked down which firmware & subsequent firmware versions causes the problem. I’ll post that information in a new topic here.