Unable to connect using Arduino WifiSheild

[PeteKnight]

@areed

Connecting to vodafone-5A9C

I guess it could be related to this:

Vodacom South Africa 3G data connection, is blocking/dropping Blynk-cloud

After the device (NodeMCU) connects to wifi, obtains a local IP address (from the Smartphone tethered wifi DHCP), connects to the mobile ISP DNS and obtains the blynk-cloud IP address, attempts to connect to blynk-cloud and sends my Auth Token, the blynk client reports time-out, and never gets the “>[00|00|01|00|C8]” messages from Blynk-cloud. Background: I purchased a low-cost cellphone (MobiWire Sakari) which I want to use as my IOT device’s internet connection to Blynk-Cloud (instead of say…

You might want to try connecting to a different WiFi network.

Pete.