Uh ohh, @dandbstephens, you might be my new BFF. That’s NOT a good thing, trust me. 
Nope, please don’t do the WiFi Extender thing – it’s actually not recommended, but folks do it. If your Data Center is plugged right into your router as close as possible to your Internet feed, keep it right there.
The difference between my situation and yours is I have a WiFi Extender hanging off a Fidium WiFi setup, and the 2.4GHz signal getting to my WiFi Extender looks dodgy and even disruptive to it. You don’t have this configuration, BUT you and I seem to have similar symptoms. You see those numbers like I do in the Diagnostics screen when the rover becomes very much unusable, you get GPS losses, the App loses connectivity, whatever. It gets frustrating.
Yes, the DC stays GREEN through all this. What I think is happening is the Data Center and rover – for whatever reason – are trying to re-negotiate the way they communicate GPS data. It looks like a network problem triggers some kind of GPS communication reset, even if HaLow is OK. But I’m only guessing.
What’s good is that you and I have the same symptoms and sometimes are ready to have our rovers drive themselves into a bonfire, only they’ll stop and not get there when this problem arises. And they’re too heavy to throw.
I am NOT sure what to do, so I just keep poking at it.
My ancient WiFi Extender is fairly broken, but if I have the WiFi radio disabled and use only 5GHz, it works GREAT (for now). I recently replaced it with a brand new WiFi Extender with all the latest and greatest, and it had the rover throwing the symptoms that you and I are seeing. Now THAT is interesting. So is having a 2.4GHz + 5GHz combo network an issue? Is my 2.4GHz network compromised, maybe by my Internet provider’s mesh hardware? I don’t know, and I continue to work on this.
Which is where you come in. You have the symptoms WITHOUT a WiFi Extender.
I’m not really sure where we go from here. I would like to get this understood and resolved. I think I’m OK for now with my broken hardware (go figure!) and can wait for Support to get back on its feet before pestering them with a “live” call. You, though, sound broken, and it’s more urgent.
Thoughts, folks? I think this may take a deeper dive and get even more boring out here.
@dandbstephens…
- Are there other devices on your router, or what happens if you plug another device into that port? Is everything OK?
- I guess if you have more details about your network topology – how it comes into the house, what it plugs into, and where it goes from there – we may be able to find a common thread.
Or not. But I’d like to…and put this to bed.