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This looks like likely an AP issue independent of the esp8266... My dev board in station mode will stay connected to an Airport Express and a separately a UniFi AP indefinitely. When connected to a SonicWall AP it can't seem to hold on for more than an hour, and often times much less than that. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the problematic AP so I can't do anything with it.

I have tried reconnecting to the AP every five minutes or so, but that doesn't seem to work as it seems to think it's successfully connected even though it stops sending data to sparkfun. I've also tried client.stop(); to force disconnect so the reconnect is "fresh" to no avail.

Again, all of my trials work as expected on the test AP's, but not on the SonicWall.

Yanking the power to reboot the device, no matter how breifly, is all it takes to get back online to the SonicWall for another 20-50 minutes. I'm going to try administering an abort(); call every ten minutes and see if that works.

Any other ideas how to trouble shoot?

arri

What's the DHCP lease time on the problematic AP?

DHCP seems to be coming from an IIS7 server at 192.168.1.10 the lease time appears to be pretty long at about eight days. There are only about thirty active devices on the subnet that I have scanned and don't really think they have enough more devices coming and going in eight days to bump against the 254 leases in their subnet.