Beautiful night here, but I missed it. I found that using the SynScan WiFi HOTSPOT for anything other than sending and receiving motion controls is well beyond the design capabilities of the HOTSPOT. It can connect multiple hosts and will route traffic on its local net, but the data travel at the "speed of smell." A fairly unpleasant smell at that.

I decided instead to add a WiFi router to my telescope kit. A small one, but with some ethernet ports with which to interconnect the Pi3 and Pi4 and a 5G connection to my laptop. My home network is also 5G, but it drops rather dramatically as you move away from the router. Meanwhile, the changes made a staggering difference in image transfer speed. I had considered using VNC to avoid sending all that data over the network, but I don't think I need worry about that now. I typically setup less than 20 feet from the scope, so the bandwidth is...well...as I should have done it in the first place.

I have separated the cameras on the two Pi's. Besides USB collisions, I was having network throughput problems. Now that the bandwidth is solved, I may as well just leave the two Pi computers in the kit....in case you wondered.

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