ok, re multi-device: currently the iphone and one ipad work alone and together; the other ipad doesn't work alone and doesn't while the others are working; yes 2 devices in parallel was and is working
battery is an Anker power bank (again, it's working with that battery on one iphone and 1 ipad)
yes 20160708
re nothing on 192...: when it's working it's working as intended (ie home page etc on 192.168.1.1, Skydemon shows traffic etc)
when it's not then:
- ipad does connect as Wifi to the PAW hot spot (ie on the ios Wifi details page you see the DHCP on PAW allocating an IPaddr, subnet mask shows normal 255.255.255.0 and router shows 192.168.1.1)
- when I start Safari and enter
http://192.168.1.1 the progress bar moves about an inch, then stops, after about 60secs there's an errors msg "could not open .. server stopped responding"
- SkyDemon shows the "waiting to connect to external device" window then also stops after 60secs with an error msg (and yes, it's the same SkyDemon config that's on the other ipad where everything is working as intended)
- you didn't ask but no, it's not the ipad as last time I had exactly the same stubborn behaviour on the ipad that's now happily showing the traffic pages and SkyDemon (that's why it doesn't help to just go with the ipad that works now, because I'll be sitting in the aicraft next time and it may just not work that time)
yes the home Wifi router is also on 192.168.1.1 but that should be off when I selected the PAW hot spot, and the IP addr changes when it logs into the PAW
I have compared every page I can find on both ipads to see any difference, but can't find anything ... beats me what's going on ...