[UKids] "XO-1 classrooms" don't reliably connect to many/most Wifi AP's

[T Gillett]

Hi Kevin

Are you saying that you can switch on your twelve XO-1s and that they will
automatically connect to a remembered AP?

Or did you connect them manually?

Regards
Terry


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Kevin Gordon Gmail <kgordon420 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Potentially silly question. Once the xo-1 is successfully attached to an
> AP, does the mesh beaconing on those three channels on that box then
> potentially stop?
>
> I had my twelve xo -1s successfully attach to an AP, and run internet
> reliably, concurrently  . Powering up a virgin non-ap attached xo-1 is when
> I saw issues.
>
> Nota bene, I did no collaboration testing.
>
> Kg
>
>
>
> Sent from my currently functioning gadget
>   Original Message
> From: James Cameron
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> To: T Gillett
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> Subject: Re: [UKids] "XO-1 classrooms" don't reliably connect to many/most
> Wifi AP's
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:36:15AM +1000, T Gillett wrote:
> > Even when using the routers that 'Passed' our initial ten XO-1 test,
> > I can see that the XO monitoring the beacon times is being disturbed
> > by the presence of even a single XO-1 running mesh.
>
> Yes, same here.
>
> > As soon as this XO boots, the beacon times blow out on the
> > monitoring XO.
>
> You mean the last beacon time shown in the scan results? Yes, this
> demonstrates the underlying fault well; that the scan results for the
> access point are being lost.
>
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