# Gateway Diagnostics & Switch to Resin.io

> Today when popping into Yarmouth town I noticed that the range of the gateway seemed to have been severly degraded with previous signal being strong across the

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network East Coast, UK](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/east-coast-uk/)
- Author: Ryan Walmsley
- Published: 2018-02-11
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/east-coast-uk/post/-gateway-diagnostics-switch-to-resinio

Today when popping into Yarmouth town I noticed that the range of the gateway seemed to have been severly degraded with previous signal being strong across the stretch of road at the Gorleston Clifftop.

So I thought I'd do some checks and possible improvements.

**Software**
One part I've been uncertain about is the software and weather it is the best one to use with multiple forks of the packet forwarder and HAL being available. I remembered that Paul from the Norfolk community mentioned about a workshop where they used Resin.io instead to setup a Raspberry Pi gateway with one of the advantages being that if then I were to manage multiple gateways in different locations it would be easier to manage. I then looked and found the tutorial at https://github.com/kersing/gateway-workshop.

I followed the tutorial and noticed a slight improvement in responsiveness. The software also uses the newer packet forwarding method which is known to be more reliable. Excellent.

**Hardware**
For the hardware there's little change, When setting up Resin.IO I used a brand new SD card. I checked one of the connectors the best I could without requiring re-soldering and it all looked fine. However I am considering replacing the connector at the other end at some point.

I'll report back on signal testing tomorrow.