Gazebo 9.5 drops internet connection
Hi everyone,
I'm about to hit my head against a wall as I don't understand how this is possible.
I just started Gazebo (version 9.5.0) and I wasn't able to load models from the online database. So I went online to search for models manually. That's where I noticed that my internet connection dropped.
After checking, this happens as soon as I start gazebo. When I close gazebo, the internet connection comes back...
I can't figure why this happens, as it doesn't happen on my colleagues' computer (on the same network and same version).
I also tried to uninstall and reinstall gazebo9 with sudo apt remove gazebo9; sudo apt install gazebo9.. and it still happens
Do you have any idea on why this happens and how to solve it?
Asked by ejalaa12 on 2018-12-14 06:38:09 UTC
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My guess is that the internet becomes slow while Gazebo is trying to download models from the database... You can try cloning gazebo_models and installing it so Gazebo doesn't try to download the models at runtime. Something like this:
mkdir ~/.gazebo/models
cd ~/.gazebo/models
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo_models -b default # this may take a while
Asked by chapulina on 2018-12-19 20:20:16 UTC
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Hi, I had the same issue and solved it by changing the way I access internet.
More specifically : I have a router provided by ORANGE (french internet provider) and I was not able to launch gazebo because it could not download the model. Then I disconnect my PC from the WiFi of the ORANGE router and I connect in WiFi to my 4G smartphone connection instead and it worked. Later, I also moved to another house and it also solved my problem so I am pretty sure that this problem is associated to my router.
Why : No idea, I know nothing about this kind of stuff and just got lucky to find a fix to my problem. Maybe some firewall issue.
Asked by iad-AR on 2021-02-08 15:52:52 UTC
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How are you checking that the connection is dropped? Could it just be slow?
Asked by chapulina on 2018-12-14 17:00:45 UTC
@chapulina simply by loading a webpage, or even doing a ping in a terminal.
Asked by ejalaa12 on 2018-12-19 19:56:04 UTC