[PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

[Noah Kantrowitz]

We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the
normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce
interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a
snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface
("Airplane mode" or similar IIRC).

--Noah

Laura Creighton wrote:
> I am at a conference.
> there are many OLPCs here.  They are interfering with the wireless
> here.  They apparantly do this  even when not officially trying to  be connected to the network,
> just being powered on is enough.
>
> W>hen 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.
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