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Bill B
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Welcome basti. I would recommended not using that FW image you posted. Use the one linked in this post http://www.communistech.com/forums/topic/new-wifi-bridge/#post-473

The problem with that image is that it uses TCP. If you use the image I linked to it uses UDP. This is much better for two reasons.

1) If you use TCP, iOS decides that the link is a ‘broadband WiFi Link’ and will route all data requests to that access point, this means map tiles will not download. UDP doesn’t have this issue.
2) In a lossy environment the link may become saturated with TCP retry packets. UDP doesn’t have this issue.

I’ll post the info to the firmware as a Support page in the coming days.

I assume you means this Level convertor https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12009

Can you post a diagram?

Thx for posting. 🙂