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Does the N1 have 5GHz wifi like the Samsung?
My home LAN is 5GHz only, so I don't disturb the neighbors with my video streaming.
No, 2.4 only...
Ugh.
OK so I turned on the router's 2.4GHz, but with broadcast SSID off. My N1 wouldn't even try to connect. So I turned on router SSID and it connects AES.
I do -not- want SSID broadcast on, as Windows machines' lazy active scan will find me. Sure they'll never get in, but I do not want broadcast on.
Has anyone succeeded in connecting with it off?
When I am connected wifi and open a website on the phone, does it go over wifi preferred over 3G?
I want to share the SD card with a machine on the LAN. What's the best way to do this? FTP? Reverse SSH tunnel? Is there a sshfs for Android? EDIT: NM on this one.
Yes, I remember connecting to a WiFi with SSID off, when I had Nexus.
It is pointless to keep SSID Broadcasting off. It is super easy to find your SSID anyway, and it causes all sorts of additional problems (like the one you are seeing above). Just keep the network secure and it makes life a lot easier.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2865...hiding-your-wireless-ssid-really-more-secure/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx
Ok, but sure passive scanners like Kismet will still see me, however 90% of scans are done with an active scanner like Winduhs. Of course I'm using WPA2-AES, but I want to take every measure possible.
Now I find that whenever I have the phone connected to wifi, I lose -all- internet access. Just times out. 3G is still on and wifi is showing connected, but I can't get to websites. As soon as I turn off Wifi I can access the internet again through 3G.
With wifi I -can- access the wireless router's setup webpage from my phone, which tells me I am working through wifi, and I can remotely mount the phone filesystem on a LAN machine using sshfs, but I can not reach anything outside. Any idea why?
Does anyone know whether, when it's working right, it uses the wifi connection in preference over 3G?
The WiFi is ALWAYS preferred to 3G, which means - when you're connected to WiFi, all the internet traffic is routed through WiFi.
I don't understand then, why all data traffic stops to the outside when wifi is connected. The rest of my LAN gets outside fine, just not the phone.
If you can see LAN computers and exchange data with them - it's not the phone that's making problems. See if you have any restrictions in your router.
Oh FFS, my fault...
I set my IP statically for my LAN, and through some alert troubleshooting I found I can ping IPs outside but not DNs. I'd mis-set the DNS server in wifi settings. Now it works great!
I can now use sshdroid to mount my phone's filesystem on my LAN securely. Now, if I could only get it to wifi associate with beacon off...
It would also be nice to mount a filesystem on my LAN to the phone, although I consider the phone unsecure and question the wisdom of that, even with DroidWall running.
There is a market app that lets you connect to a hidden ssid
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Cool, but Market is FCing on me. I did a complete reinstall of the newest MIUI.us, and now Market's FCing again. So can't install any Market apps.
As someone else said, turning SSID off is pointless. It's like taking the numbers off the outside of your house and thinking people driving by won't see your house sitting there.
Apparently you didn't understand what I said here:
Quantumstate said:
Ok, but sure passive scanners like Kismet will still see me, however 90% of scans are done with an active scanner like Winduhs. Of course I'm using WPA2-AES, but I want to take every measure possible.
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If nothing else, please just respect my decision in this regard, or give valid proof that active scanners are not the preponderance.
I just got my self an Asus N12 router/repeater and already set it up for repeater mode, verified with a laptop places on the house that formerly had very low signal now shows almost a full bar now the problem I have is that the Galaxy Note seems to only want to connect to the main router which gives it like a very low or even dropped signal, using an app called wifi analizer it can show both my main router and the repeater ( both have the same SSID and only shows a different mac address of some sort, the repeater is actually detected giving off good signal but then again it always connects to the main router.. I never had to setup anything on the laptop it just gets better over all signal.
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This is what Wifi Analizer sees
Home (00:23:59:11:11:71)
Home (bc:ae:c5:b0:3a:78)
first one is my primary router and the 2nd one is my asus, the note always prefers to connect to the primary router and ignores the signal from the repeater.. the laptops on the other hand get the signal boost!
Good thread to second the question.
Is it possible to set the Roaming Aggressiveness for the Note?
In simpler words - if i have two signals (say, identical as the OPs config) i want to switch between them before the connections to the connected one has been dropped. In other words - is there a way to switch WiFi networks beneath signal strength value or on better signal from known network?
Spo0f said:
Good thread to second the question.
Is it possible to set the Roaming Aggressiveness for the Note?
In simpler words - if i have two signals (say, identical as the OPs config) i want to switch between them before the connections to the connected one has been dropped. In other words - is there a way to switch WiFi networks beneath signal strength value or on better signal from known network?
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Im also looking for something like that, I've read before that tasker can do that kind of switching.
Google might be your friend
I found this on another forum :
Originally Posted by wilmer000 View Post
Cracked it. WrecX free in market allows you to set a preferred AP, and either allow or exclude OPEN AP should you lose signal.
Re:tasker, basically a full phone API with undocumented GUI. Complex, requires *full* permissions (not my bag!), costs 4GB£
I had the exact same problem and this fixed it. It uses just 472Kb and it works. Thanks!
To use it, open it, Menu, Preference, Access Point(AP) and choose your preferred network.
It would be nice if I could set up multiple preferred access points, but I can live with the inconvenience of choosing a network while I'm travelling. I was getting annoyed with having to keep doing it at home though.
Hope it will resolve your problem.
You could try this with the free Wi-Fi Rules (a WIFI Manager) app in the market.
It allows you to set connect priorities...
Or even Wif-Fi scanner wRecX(Free) where your device can connect with the retrieved access points specified in the list...
That is annoying! I just bought a repeater. I guess I'll be having the same problems ...
friedje said:
Google might be your friend
I found this on another forum :
Originally Posted by wilmer000 View Post
Cracked it. WrecX free in market allows you to set a preferred AP, and either allow or exclude OPEN AP should you lose signal.
Re:tasker, basically a full phone API with undocumented GUI. Complex, requires *full* permissions (not my bag!), costs 4GB£
I had the exact same problem and this fixed it. It uses just 472Kb and it works. Thanks!
To use it, open it, Menu, Preference, Access Point(AP) and choose your preferred network.
It would be nice if I could set up multiple preferred access points, but I can live with the inconvenience of choosing a network while I'm travelling. I was getting annoyed with having to keep doing it at home though.
Hope it will resolve your problem.
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smaragdhk said:
You could try this with the free Wi-Fi Rules (a WIFI Manager) app in the market.
It allows you to set connect priorities...
Or even Wif-Fi scanner wRecX(Free) where your device can connect with the retrieved access points specified in the list...
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I will try both solutions once I have my repeater up and running again, It is currently used as my primary router as it gives a better over all coverage compared to my old router but I will go back to using the repeater when I have the time to do so.
tried a different ssid on the repeater?
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tried a different ssid on the repeater?
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A repeater automatically configured to have the same SSID at least on the Asus repeater mode, Access Point mode on the other hand allows you to use a different SSID but you need a LAN cable to connect to it.
After setting it back up, I've already figured it out that if I needed to connect to my repeater I must have a static IP settings on my phone.. for some odd reason it does not provide any IP from the DHCP of the primary router, so when I go up a floor I just need to reconnect manually to the primary router by turning the wifi toggle off then on again.
I have exactly the same issue, Static IP works but Notes can't pick an IP while connected to the repeater only work workarounds I found 1. static ip, 2. setup DHCP on the repeater too.
and I hate both
did you made any progress on this ?
ArcticCat said:
I have exactly the same issue, Static IP works but Notes can't pick an IP while connected to the repeater only work workarounds I found 1. static ip, 2. setup DHCP on the repeater too.
and I hate both
did you made any progress on this ?
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Static IP is the only work around I found for this to work, my laptop though connects to the repeater with out issues and the need for static IP. Same issue with the Galaxy tab7.7 Im guessing this could be an andriod/samsung issue.
There is a known issue with some Samsung Android phones, including Note, failing to support BSSID roaming. That is were the wifi device hands over between separate APs with the same SSID.
More info here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12649
You could set your repeater to use a different SSID, if supported. I have had success with BSSID roaming when using Imilka's CM9 build for the Note.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks to both, yes all other devices works just fine here too. Just my note and wife's S2 having problems
Good to know it is a bug and sad to notice still the same in ICS
Loftus said:
There is a known issue with some Samsung Android phones, including Note, failing to support BSSID roaming. That is were the wifi device hands over between separate APs with the same SSID.
More info here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12649
You could set your repeater to use a different SSID, if supported. I have had success with BSSID roaming when using Imilka's CM9 build for the Note.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
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I cant see the option for my Repeater to be labelled differently
by definition a repeater will have the ssid that the main one
ArcticCat said:
by definition a repeater will have the ssid that the main one
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Yes, but some Asus models do have the ability to have it renamed.
I'm really not seeing any threads with workarounds for this error message.
I know I haven't been around in quite a while, am I just missing them? If I am, please point me in the correct direction.
If not, I can update this thread with some workarounds I have found (May also help Google in helping their customers, can't explain any further than that). Seems like it would make sense to have a thread dedicated to that.
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I'm really not seeing any threads with workarounds for this error message.
I know I haven't been around in quite a while, am I just missing them? If I am, please point me in the correct direction.
If not, I can update this thread with some workarounds I have found (May also help Google in helping their customers, can't explain any further than that). Seems like it would make sense to have a thread dedicated to that.
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These are a list of things that can be at play...Most are Router related
No Multicast capability, Multicast Disabled or Filtering On
2.4 Ghz band disabled or not supported by the router (CCast only has 2.4Ghz WiFi)
IGMP Enabled or Proxied
AP Isolation on
UPnP settings
IPv6 Disabled
MAC Filtering Enabled
Firewall and Security Programs blocking ports
Incompatible Routers
Check here for possible solutions
https://support.google.com/chromecast/table/3477832?hl=en&ref_topic=3447927
and make sure your CCast has a Solid White Light cause if not then you need to use the setup program to configure it
What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.
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What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.
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How is the WiFi signal at the Chromecast? The HDMI Extender can help a lot in some cases.
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How is the WiFi signal at the Chromecast? The HDMI Extender can help a lot in some cases.
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WiFi is strong. It works fine from all my other devices, it's just Chrome. I'm on a Windows 8 PC. Sometimes it'll work perfectly for hours on end. I have everything except my LAN turned off (or so I think), checked binding orders, my windows firewall is off, and it just keeps happening.
Actually I will report back, I thought I had IGMP disabled. I didn't, so I just turned it off.
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WiFi is strong. It works fine from all my other devices, it's just Chrome. I'm on a Windows 8 PC. Sometimes it'll work perfectly for hours on end. I have everything except my LAN turned off (or so I think), checked binding orders, my windows firewall is off, and it just keeps happening.
Actually I will report back, I thought I had IGMP disabled. I didn't, so I just turned it off.
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If that doesn't change things, check if you can adjust your router's UPnP Advertisement time and see if that correlates with your dropoffs.
Beyond that you can try the Wireless Portable Devices setting in the Firewall and enabling IPv6 as described by folks in this thread.
I had similar issues when I first played with the Chromecast which were being caused by Wifi signal - it appears that due to the location of my Chromecast (in a media cabinet) the signal was severely degraded. I tried it in the TV directly (as opposed to the home theatre) and this increased the performance for me as it was out of the cabinet and ended up buying a hdmi extender to run it up into a higher location so it would get better signal.
Not sure if you're getting the same but that's what I'd look at.
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What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443288
And the second thread is linked from that one.
Anyone who is using this in a Home Entertainment environment would be wise to get a Wireless AP extender to place near the Home Entertainment cabinet because all those devices throw off so much RF that can easily interfere with the CCast connection.
It's one of the reasons I wish they had a USB Cable similar to the one used for Flashcast that you could put a wired USB ETH dongle in and wire it up.
Thats something I would expect @Kyonz and Team Eureka to be adding to their ROM at some point. That would be a damn good upgrade to the Unit for those with Reception and Network issues. We might even get a sense of exactly what Bitrate the CCast Hardware can handle when the Network isn't getting in the way.
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If that doesn't change things, check if you can adjust your router's UPnP Advertisement time and see if that correlates with your dropoffs.
Beyond that you can try the Wireless Portable Devices setting in the Firewall and enabling IPv6 as described by folks in this thread.
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This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.
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This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.
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Since rebooting the router seems to help it feels like it's some advertisement or multicast related thing. It "registers" at router start but eventually the client is ignoring it. Does the Windows machine go to sleep, turn off its network connection, or auto connect to VPN or another virtual network adapter?
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.
zcace said:
This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.
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You mentioned Windows 8...
Make sure IPv6 is enabled on both the Computer and the Router.
If your router does not support IPv6 that may be the cause of your problem.
But it is on the list of Compatible routers which leads me to believe you have IPv6 disabled on the Windows8 machine.
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Since rebooting the router seems to help it feels like it's some advertisement or multicast related thing. It "registers" at router start but eventually the client is ignoring it. Does the Windows machine go to sleep, turn off its network connection, or auto connect to VPN or another virtual network adapter?
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.
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Again let's keep in mind that the CC works perfectly fine from every other device. Been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix through my phone and it goes for hours and hours without a hitch.
With that said you're on to something with the sleep idea. My sleep for displays is set to 2 hours, and my hard drives is set to 3 hours, so I don't think that's it. All VPNs or extra LAN connections are off afaik. But turning off my network connection, that's a possibility. I found the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' option under Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Ethernet -> Properties -> Configure -> Power Management tab. Now, I tried this both allowing the computer to idle (dropped off) and while typing this very message (also dropped off). So it's not that particular setting. Also IPv6 is enabled in the Ethernet Properties. This is crazy, why doesn't this work out of the box!? Everything else did.
Google Chrome Canary is seemingly fixing a lot of people's issues.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html
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Again let's keep in mind that the CC works perfectly fine from every other device. Been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix through my phone and it goes for hours and hours without a hitch.
With that said you're on to something with the sleep idea. My sleep for displays is set to 2 hours, and my hard drives is set to 3 hours, so I don't think that's it. All VPNs or extra LAN connections are off afaik. But turning off my network connection, that's a possibility. I found the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' option under Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Ethernet -> Properties -> Configure -> Power Management tab. Now, I tried this both allowing the computer to idle (dropped off) and while typing this very message (also dropped off). So it's not that particular setting. Also IPv6 is enabled in the Ethernet Properties. This is crazy, why doesn't this work out of the box!? Everything else did.
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Hmm, can't find it but I remember running across a mention of Chromecast discovery not working properly in some cases when there were multiple network interfaces installed (regardless of whether they're active). Windows also has some trouble with the network filter driver layer if there are two many filters installed (again, VPN adapters and firewalls).
Actually... maybe I'm overthinking things as I often do...
It's just that particular computer, right?
Can you try disabling all other Chrome extensions? I recall someone else ran into a conflict with another Chrome extension.
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Hmm, can't find it but I remember running across a mention of Chromecast discovery not working properly in some cases when there were multiple network interfaces installed (regardless of whether they're active). Windows also has some trouble with the network filter driver layer if there are two many filters installed (again, VPN adapters and firewalls).
Actually... maybe I'm overthinking things as I often do...
It's just that particular computer, right?
Can you try disabling all other Chrome extensions? I recall someone else ran into a conflict with another Chrome extension.
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Indeed, only this computer has any issues. I tried turning off all chrome extensions, still no dice. I am sure there is one singular obscure setting somewhere we are missing. Or maybe its like 'mattykinsx' said, it's a Chrome issue?
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Indeed, only this computer has any issues. I tried turning off all chrome extensions, still no dice. I am sure there is one singular obscure setting somewhere we are missing. Or maybe its like 'mattykinsx' said, it's a Chrome issue?
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Quite possible it's a Chrome thing.
Perhaps create a System Restore point (or otherwise back up your current instance) and try the newfangled thing.
bhiga said:
Quite possible it's a Chrome thing.
Perhaps create a System Restore point (or otherwise back up your current instance) and try the newfangled thing.
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I take it back. Downloaded Chrome Canary, installed only Google Cast, still drops connection after a couple of minutes.
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I take it back. Downloaded Chrome Canary, installed only Google Cast, still drops connection after a couple of minutes.
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Your Network location is set to Home or Work, yes?
Can you post a shot of the Advanced tab of your network interface's properties from Device Manager?
(Alt-PrtScn will capture the active window, or you can use the Snipping Tool)
bhiga said:
Your Network location is set to Home or Work, yes?
Can you post a shot of the Advanced tab of your network interface's properties from Device Manager?
(Alt-PrtScn will capture the active window, or you can use the Snipping Tool)
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What are we trying to glean from this?
There used to be forum sections relating to this, but searching keeps bringing up windows mobile.
I'm in need of help with something and honestly this place, and the people here are the only tools I trust.
My issue isn't version specific (actually on 8 now as I'm in middle of doing updates again) and was having network issues.
Using linksyssmartwifi.com to check for issues, there were over 50 devices connected, and I had to clear them.
Installed nmap but clueless on how to use, as a scan shows zero results, while website interface to my 1900wrt shows new list of current devices.
Entering their ip address into browser just brings up search, instead of taking me to device. Mac address search doesn't tell me much. And clicking on device info in interface just shows ip and mac with no os or manufacturer info.
I'm not trying to hack into the devices connected, I just want exact info as to what, and who it belongs to, before I block internet access from the mac address.
Changing ssid and password isn't a fix, turning off broadcast ssid isn't either. I have an undisclosed test item in home that we are basically under contract to keep hush, and requires an app to make work, and getting into it to setup to connect to hidden network isn't an option.
Would like to also setup router so that when someone connects, I get an email notification or something so I have to approve their connection. The kids have friends that drop by and connect.
Looking at not connected devices, I seen some things that caught my eye, android-(and a name I don't know). As well as random numbers and letters for names. I have cleared them all, but can't stop them from connecting again if they have ssid and password. Only disconnect them, but I don't know which is safe or not.
I want my router to notify me of connection attempt, then someone in the house has to tell me it was them before I let them in, whether at home or remotely using Linksys app.
I am working to automate use of OpenVPN Connect with tasker such that coming home and connecting to my home WiFi network will disconnect the VPN and leaving my home WiFi network will connect the VPN on other WiFi networks. I have defined a task to disconnect the VPN and it works. The problem I am having is with the profile for my home WiFi network.
I created a profile detecting a connection to my home WiFi network by its SSID and MAC address which works fine when the VPN is not open. But when the VPN is open the profile is not active when connected to the home WiFi? Why is tasker not seeing the WiFi connection state when the VPN is open? If I run the task to disconnect the VPN manually the profile then goes active.
What am I missing? Why is an open VPN connection preventing tasker from detecting the WiFi connection?
Dave
In the WiFi connected context, change Active -> yes to Active -> any.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
ktmom said:
In the WiFi connected context, change Active -> yes to Active -> any.
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I would have thought that "any" would include cases where the specified network is not connected, but perhaps I am confused. I will try this and see.
Dave
Had the same issue. I stopped routing the network traffic through a VPN through Tasker and that fixed it. Whitelist Tasker in your VPN settings