#4818 HIGH Never A: XOs saturate wireless network

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#4818: XOs saturate wireless network
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 Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |       Owner:  mbletsas      
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high               |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  wireless           |     Version:                
 Keywords:                     |    Verified:  0             
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 Laura Creighton reports that the XOs that were present at the Hacker's
 Conference severely compromised the usability of the wireless network for
 others.  Here is the relevant excerpt from one of her messages:

 Laura Creighton wrote:
 > I am at a conference.
 > there are many OLPCs here.  They are interfering with the wireless
 > here.  They apparently do this even when not officially trying to  be
 connected to the network,
 > just being powered on is enough.
 >
 > When we get a report from the people who brought our own network
 > and are running it about what the heck is wrong with the fool things
 > we can decide whether to ban them from PyCON or if we have a
 > technical fix for them which we can require OLPC users to run.
 > or have a technical fix for our network.
 >
 > Otherwise, 10 of the things eats a network which was designed to
 > comfortably hold several thousand simultaneous uesrs, or 200
 > people like us who use streaming video a lot.
 >
 > Laura
 >
 > cannot go back and fix errors or make nice sentence structure
 > given the state of the wireless.  posting this now before I forget.
 > _______________________________________________
 > Pycon-organizers mailing list
 > Pycon-organizers at python.org
 > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers
 >
 >

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