He advised that the short arial inside (have to take the bottom off of hopper side) is taped to the wall. He said untape it and let it dangle. I have a netgear wifi booster in my network and after I went back into System on my iPhone and selected my WiFi with the ".ext" after the name on the wifi list, I had no problem, so did not have to do the above.
Bacon cook went well and had the best BLT ever for lunch. Only had 8 thick slices but that did the job.
One note of caution. Be sure the grill grates are level. My porch causes my grill grates to drain to the back of the grill and then down the back support ledge where it drained off into the left corner of the barrel, then onto the bottom and leaked thru to drip on the ground. It was not the caulking that caused the leak. It was where the rivets that hold on the end cap of the barrel come thru the metal. These rivets do not seal themselves, and the bacon grease easily leaked thru in one place and then oozed out of the end cap on the bottom. I completely cleaned those areas with rags and then with Goof Off (naphtha) and when dry applied 800* gray "make a gasket" to all of those rivets I could find. In the meantime, I have found a level position to place the grill when doing a greasy cook. After a bacon cook, of course I had to do a thorough cleaning anyhow. If you use foil on the drip pan, the oily grease tends to puddle in spots anyhow. BUT that was the best bacon ever.