#8189 HIGH 8.2.1: connection to wireless AP was unreliable in room having multiple XOs
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Sat Aug 30 08:38:17 EDT 2008
#8189: connection to wireless AP was unreliable in room having multiple XOs
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Reporter: mikus | Owner: riccardo
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 8.2.1
Component: wireless | Version: Development build as of this date
Resolution: | Keywords:
Next_action: diagnose | Verified: 0
Blockedby: | Blocking:
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Comment(by mikus):
Replying to [comment:2 kimquirk]:
> How many XOs? We know that we have trouble with any RF transmission if
there are 10 or more XOs in a closed space.
There usually were four or less active XOs in the room. HOWEVER, this was
a rf-rich environment -- at all times there were more than a dozen APs
showing in Neighborhood view. [Although there were two or so APs in the
room, which we thought would be given preference because of signal
strength, sometimes after being booted an XO would ask for a key --
meaning it was trying "automatically" to connect to an outside-of-the-room
AP.]
The frustrating thing was that when I would click in Neighborhood View on
the circle of the channel-6 non-locked AP in the room, that circle would
blink for a while, then go back to not trying to connect. I ended up
connecting my XO via wired ethernet - because that was more reliable.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8189#comment:3>
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