Problem Connecting Windows 10 Laptop to Oak SSID

[briankb]

Last night I was able to get one of the Oak's updated but only doing all the steps via my iPhone.

Tonight I've been trying again on my laptop, as I have 10 oaks to update. My windows 10 laptop refuses to connect to the oak's wireless to initiate an update. I did a search on the forums and I see someone else had issues with Win10 also but I couldn't find a reason or solution.

Anyone else have this problem and find a solution to connect their brand new oaks (pre-update) to Windows 10?

[PeterF]

I had issues on getting my W10 laptop to connect to the oaks wireless, and gave up as I suspect it was a conflict between either my intel wirelsss and the oak, or that the channel the oak was broadcasting on was the same as my routers, and the laptop couldn't deal with that. I just used my tablet to do all the connect to oak stuff, as it was pretty reliable for that. Unfortunately, I don't think that is what you really wanted to hear!

Pete

[defragster]

I used my phone and it was much faster to sync and use the AP as well even when I did get my Win10 to see the OAK.  I resorted to the LOCAL update and that went quite well on most of my 7 devices.

I used an Android phone and it has a clipboard - so I cut my Particle password onto the clipboard so I could paste that quite easily.  My Home ssid's PWD is longer but easier to type so that didn't bug me as much

[briankb]

Thanks for the feedback. I dug out an older laptop HP G7 that also had Win10 installed and the oaks were able to connect to it. The connection was marked as "Limited" for some reason but it did allow me to follow the update process, even as it didn't work.

Lenovo Yoga 14 - will not connect, I believe it has an Intel wireless chip so maybe there is some conflict between and intel
HP Pavillion G7 - connected but was marked as limited by Win10

side note: the only thing that has worked for me to get the first update on these oaks is using an old wifi router and set the transmit speed down to 1 or 2mb. Ironically my brand new ASUS AC88U does not have options to set the speed on the main or guest wifi networks.

[emardee]

When a network connection is marked "limited" in Windows, it means it has local network access, but can't find the internet. That would be correct when connecting to the Oak's own AP as there is no internet available. Might be worth someone adding that warning to as a note in the first setup guides.

Yeah sounds more like a wifi chipset incompatibility rather than Windows 10 itself.

[briankb]

Thanks for explaining that emardee.

[DrJFM]

Windows 10 Desktop (64 bit Home) gave some initial problems, but things went a whole lot smoother when I turned off the Windows Firewall while doing the update.  The Firewall can block the Oak when it is functioning as an Access Point or at least make it appear as an "Unknown" network. Oak defaults to Access Point mode if it can't find a WiFi that it can log into.

I described my solutions in more detail here:
http://digistump.com/board/index.php/topic,2180.0.html

Avast gave me no trouble, but other antivirus may.  Also helps to get the Oak near the WiFi source ie strong signal.

My second Oak updated first try but again had to turn of firewall to find it and give it the Access Point to use and password to get to the internet.