I originally set my astrobox up with an ethernet connection, now "I am trying to get the wifi dangle you suggested to work and it won’t. I have rebooted without the ethernet connection and it still will not
I’ve had problems with this as well…using older astrobox images so I don’t know how much still applies.
My solution was to install a fresh astroprint image and set up the wifi using the prescribed peer-to-peer process.
Once I did this I could switch between wired and wireless as expected by removing or installing the wire.
(I usually reboot the astrobox so I don’t know if it will actually just switch when already booted up)
You don’t really loose much with a clean install if you are using the astroprint web service to send stuff to the astrobox.
You loose all the g-code files that are already on the astrobox but you can just download them again as needed from the web interface. Printer setting will need to be re-entered I think, but Slice setting and most of the rest of the config is stored on the web.
thanks i appreciate it, I was wondering if that was the path i needed to go down, now to get the 7" display touch interface working 
Re started with a fresh install and wifi started working. Now just focusing on the touchscreen