– for GMG Jim Bowie WiFi Grill!!!

I got this as a gamble to see if a new wifi controller would work any better with my wifi. Tons of users complain about the reliability of the Green Mountain Grill Wifi losing connections or not connecting at all. I’m an I.T. guy and I can say for sure buying a new one isn’t going to help. What they need to do is get a new chipset or firmware upgrade. While I’m on a newer wifi6 velop mesh, I put in my older velop and it still loses connections. There was a time 7yrs ago in 2017 that it worked fairly decent up until a year ago. The server mode was a joke. Sure it worked momentarily but would lose connection fast. The wifi app while one of the nicer ones out there would just never see the grill. Now I was able to experiment setting static IP and dhcp reservations on the gmg card, it didn’t matter. The app wouldn’t find it. Dumb!! I can see it and log onto the network card fine.Lately the unit both old and new only connect briefly for a few minutes which is just long enough for me to send a profile cook to it and let it go til finished. **One thing I can say is for all you GMG owners out there is try doing a fresh restart of YOUR wifi router or mesh system, seems to help refresh everything and without having to turn off and on your gmg, mine seemed to connect and stay online for about an hour before just disappearing into cyberspace.Other notes if anyone cares: I use a droid phone and app. I’ve also used an old ipad both on wifi and direct peer to peer but the GMG app would never like to connect or find the grill. They need to simple revamp the nics they use especially for the newer tech coming out. I know for a fact that with wifi6 and beyond, I’ve had to update firmware on tablets that were 5 yrs old or they would NOT connect to the access points even with the same SSID and protocols. I feel both with age of the GMG nics and new tech, they’re just old and need something entirely new. So while I could have sent this back, a buddy needed one to fix his Jim Bowie so I sold him my old used one. Works fine for him to do the manual stuff like he did before at least.