Problems activating Minix wifi (and extender)

Ricardo77

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Hello,
can someone provide me the steps to activate U9H wifi, as well as setting it as extender?
I have it connected to the wired and wirelessly, so it would be great having it as extender.

Regards
 
Hello,
can someone provide me the steps to activate U9H wifi, as well as setting it as extender?
I have it connected to the wired and wirelessly, so it would be great having it as extender.

Regards

Hi and welcome to the forum!

To activate WiFi just go to Advanced Settings (choose from inside All Apps -choose the settings icon and in there look for the square labeled Advanced Settings-, or simply click the clock area if you are using the Minix Metro launcher) and then turn on WiFi by sliding right the corresponding button. Identify from the list the SSID for your ISP router and insert the corresponding password.

To share your WiFi connection from the U9-H with other devices:

Go into Settings, at the Wireless and Networks separator choose the 3 dots labeled More.
Choose Portable Hotspot, and in there go to Set up WiFi hotspot.
As you do the upper slider in the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot will automatically slide from greyed out to active.
At the board that comes up you can mark the square to show the password and use that password to connect other devices or choose your own password for the purpose.

Please let us know how it goes,

Regards
 
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@Ricardo77
If you have wifi and rj45 connected at the same time the device always gives priority to cable.

In order to use only wifi you must disconnect ethernet cable.

Wifi Extender- i advice you to buy a wifi extender or a power line and then use your minix to connect.

Note: faster and more stable if you can is always using cable and only wifi for smartphones, laptops...
My setup is that.
 
Hello and thanks everyone for information.
My question, maybe more a little to @notrui , is that i read in http://www.minix.us/products/NEO-U9-H.html that
"
Peripheral Interface
RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet - Supports hotspot sharing via Wi-fi USB 2.0 port x 3, OTG port x 1, Kensington lock ready
Micro SD Card Reader
"
Doesnt this mean precisely that it supports hotspot sharing [from a RJ45 connection]?

Regards
 
I think i understood your idea: are you telling me that this can work as an extender of a xxx wifi net, to which minix is wireless connected?
If it's this, Jesus, :(
 
I think i understood your idea: are you telling me that this can work as an extender of a xxx wifi net, to which minix is wireless connected?
If it's this, Jesus, :(
Connect the U9-H with Ethernet and setup Hotspot. Now you can connect other wireless devices through the Hotspot.
 
Hello, i've got to some conclusions:
1) i had already in the pass done some setup around here, always with problems, and i was not understanding how everything seemed to be working today (your tips were already in the right place), i think that Hotspot slider never stayed on "ON" mode - and i've recalled all of this because it was ON today (i've hard rebooted during these days) and when i placed a password to hotspot, it went to OFF, didn't allow me to place ON (even after removing the password), so i had to hard reboot minix, again.

2) I'm not totally sure what notrui and villa were saying on your first tips (wired and wifi can't be on on the same time), for now i assume that Minix doesn't work as an extender of an existing wifi network, but as an hotspot of a wifi or wired net, and consequently, under a new net name.

3) I've tested through speedtest.net, with my laptop at 1 meter of minix. I had +- 9,37 Mb download and upload, with 12 of ping. Is this any good?
Seems very slow.

Thanks for all your tips.
 
2) I'm not totally sure what notrui and villa were saying on your first tips (wired and wifi can't be on on the same time), for now i assume that Minix doesn't work as an extender of an existing wifi network, but as an hotspot of a wifi or wired net, and consequently, under a new net name.
In order to use only wifi you need :
Windows :

-disconnect connection (settings/change adapter options and disable )
OR
disconnect rj45 cable

If you have rj45 connected and wifi connected at the same time windows will give ethernet preference (and connect with that)

Android :
-as i always use RJ45 i don´t know if i can disconnect the connection (without disconnect cable) (maybe with some change you can do that)
or
disconnect rj45 cable

If you have rj45 connected and wifi connected at the same time android will give ethernet preference (and connect with that)

In general :
android (tested on >= lollipop ) and windows (tested on windows 10) works the same way (same procedure)
 
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Hello, i've got to some conclusions:
1) i had already in the pass done some setup around here, always with problems, and i was not understanding how everything seemed to be working today (your tips were already in the right place), i think that Hotspot slider never stayed on "ON" mode - and i've recalled all of this because it was ON today (i've hard rebooted during these days) and when i placed a password to hotspot, it went to OFF, didn't allow me to place ON (even after removing the password), so i had to hard reboot minix, again.

2) I'm not totally sure what notrui and villa were saying on your first tips (wired and wifi can't be on on the same time), for now i assume that Minix doesn't work as an extender of an existing wifi network, but as an hotspot of a wifi or wired net, and consequently, under a new net name.

3) I've tested through speedtest.net, with my laptop at 1 meter of minix. I had +- 9,37 Mb download and upload, with 12 of ping. Is this any good?
Seems very slow.

Thanks for all your tips.

As far as I'm aware you can Extend a wireless signal that you get from a router directly (keeping the same SSID and password of the internet provided at the router node) using an extender, or you can create a Hotspot from a WiFi device connected over WiFi to a network or router, and connect other WiFi devices to this one (and you have to set these devices to connect to the name and password set in the hotspot new network).

There are apps so told to create an extender out of an Android device by adding software to the system, will likely require setting proxy definitions, or rooting the device. Apparently you will be left with a new SSID and password for the new network anyway, so I can't see what the point might be to go after one of these. Example: Netshare-No-Root-Tethering, allows 10 minutes connection on free version, requires to be installed in all concerning devices; there should be more to try out from the Playstore. I never tried any.

The Minix box is not a router or an extender. When you mentioned the need to extend connection we probably thought of the way there is to have a connection that is gets, by cable or WiFi, sent to other devices and that is by creating a hotspot. 'Extender' was your word, 'hotspot' is what there is. Semanthics might be another thing arrising. On an extender you also have to obey name and password for the original connection, on the hotspot you have the name and password for the hotspot.

Because your Minix box can only have one data source at a time, it has to connect either to cable or Wifi at a time as well. It is not physically possible to connect it to two different sources at the same time, even if those sources seem to live together inside the same router where you have your box connected to. It gives priority to cable. (@notrui and @Villa explained it better)

From your number 3 I get the impression that you have your Minix box getting its connection from a WiFi shared connection out from a laptop, and if it is just 1mt away from the laptop I am getting some trouble to figure out why is it not directly connected to the original source where the laptop is connected to, as speed would certainly benefit from it.
 
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