A quick and dirty approach to fixing the problem would be to clone the "good" uSD card over the "bad" one...use Main Menu>Accessories>SD Card Copier but that doesn't answer the question of "why". I was all set to suggest local interference with the wifi signal until you mentioned that you had good ...

When you attempt to login with ssh, where does it hang? Is it after the password prompt? No, I'm able to enter the password and get access, and really issue any commands once I'm in but only for about a minute and then I'm out since the connection is dropped. But to clarify, I can only ssh in if I ...

When you say unplug and replug are you talking about the power connection? That is really scary because if you don't remember to go through a proper poweroff sequence (10 green LED flashes) you can screw up the uSD card so that it won't boot properly. If you have no other way of controlling the Pi ...

runboy93 wrote:Do you use onboard wifi or usb dongle?

I'm using the Raspberry Pi 3 so it's onboard wifi

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 Running Raspbian Jesse 8. The wifi was working fine until today. I noticed that when I'd ssh into the device (I'd have to unplug and replug to be able to do this) it would hang. Using an HDMI cable to log in directly to the RPi, I can see that wifi is on and connected shor...