#4805 BLOC Update.: OLPC laptops interfering with other 802.11b/g traffic

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#4805: OLPC laptops interfering with other 802.11b/g traffic
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  Reporter:  kimquirk  |       Owner:  mbletsas
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0         |  
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Comment(by mbletsas):

 This completely rules out the beacon scenario - (which I always found hard
 to believe anyway) and leaves a lazyWDS interaction as the only option
 here (if it was the XOs that they were causing the trouble in the first
 place - a very big IF)

 M.


 Replying to [comment:8 wmb at firmworks.com]:
 > Another Hacker's attendee - Dan Miller - adds:  [ BTW, THINK is the
 alternative/sanitized name for the Hacker's Conference; Chaminade is the
 name of the conference venue ]
 >
 > dunno if this is relevant, but -- while the THINK ssid was close to
 useless
 > (random disconnections within 30 seconds in the rare event that you
 could
 > get a connection at all), the Chaminade wifi worked flawlessly for me,
 once
 > I paid the $10 tythe.  I needed a good connection to do my OpenSim demo.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4805#comment:11>
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