I am having problems streaming videos to a Pi (running raspbmc). A bit of background...I recently added a TP-LINK wifi extender to my network as the router is a long way from some of the devices - the Pi in question is about as far from the router as you can get in our house. I have migrated a handful of devices to the extender. Including the Pi whose connectivity was patchy beforehand.
I have a samba share on a PC which is sat next to the router. I try to access this share via the Pi using the file manager option. It takes a while to show the folders but gets there. When I click on the video in question it appears to be searching then gives up the ghost. I will note that one time we did get the video running but it paused quite a lot.
To troubleshoot I tried a couple of different USB wifi cards all with the same result. I know this is not apples and apples but I put my Nexus tablet (using the extender) next to the Pi and tried to access the video via the share – perfect.
So I did another test. Place a laptop in the same room as the Pi and connect to the wifi extender. Place my eeepc next to the original router (ie. at the other end of the house) and connect. Results:
- connect the laptop to the Pi via SSH approx 8s
- connect the laptop to the eeepc approx 2s
So I am obviously getting something wrong! I had a look at /var/log/messages and all I saw was:
which doesn't help much as the date on the Pi is correct not Dec 25.Dec 25 10:38:42 raspbmc kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Dec 25 10:38:46 raspbmc kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Ultimately it looks like there is an issue with connectivity on the Pi. If anyone could suggest ways to troubleshoot I would be grateful.
Cheers