Weird Android box error no is able to solve.

by dpjg

I have a Mibox 3, I guess an international version, with an EU plug. The wifi has never worked right. Right out of the box I couldn't really connect to the internet. It will tell Me im connected to the wifi, but I can never actually connect to the internet. Someone it will just cycle connecting and disconnecting. Sometimes it appears to stay connected indefinitely.

The weird thing is that after I connect, if I look at available networks, there will be one or two new networks with nearly identical names to the one I connected to. If, say, my network SSID was houseboat, there would be a housecoat and houseboat network available. The same thing happens if I try to tether To my android phone. AndroicAP or the like will appear alongside AndroidAP. The spelling errors always appear to be one letter off.

All other devices can connect to the wifi. Laptop, switch, phones. No other devices see these other fake SSIDs..I can usb tether to the box from my phone to get a connection, but that is pretty much it.

I've tried updating it, hard resets, smacking it around a bit. Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

koshergoy

update wifi firmware

LinksAwkwardBrother

I would suggest returning the mibox and ordering/getting a replacement, sounds like a bug in the mibox wifi firmware.

If you don't want to return the mibox, then a usb ethernet adapter should work fine.

ShadeezBack

Have you performed a factory reset?

“Settings”>>”Device”>>”Storage & reset”>>”Factory data reset”

no_offence

Sounds like a 5GHz wifi problem to me. Change the wifi channel on your router to between 36-48 or 149-165.

If you're not running 5GHz wifi, try changing the 2.4GHz channel to a specific channel other than "Auto".