[OLPC New Zealand] [OLPC-AU] [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 21 April 2012

[Kevin Gordon]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:55 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:54:05AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this symptom seems to appear only on our TP-link
> > running Open WRT and our Buffalo running DD-WRT.  The view shows all
> > 20 of the laptops when we use our Cisco or Cradlepoint AP's - both of
> > which are running their proprietary firmware.  We have a tech
> > volunteer here who is investigating whether there might be a setting
> > within the open-source firmware for the TP-Link and Buffaloes that
> > might better be able to handle these items.    One theory he is
> > exploring is whether the AP is fracking the multicast.  However, we
> > have no experimental proof as to the real cause yet.
>
> I've personally seen TP-Link and OpenWRT AP problems a few weeks ago,
> but they were fixed by updating the AP to the current snapshot as of
> 18th April.
>
> > Further, we have done no testing on collaboration, at present we are
> > just looking longingly at the pretty screen of neighbourhood view , in
> > these various AP environments, since our present goal is to select a
> > robust , yet affordable, AP.
>
> That is not a sufficient test.
>

100% agreed.  But until we see all the pretty icons on the screen, we're
not proceeding to the next step.

>
> What I observed was that the laptop would show it is associated, but the
> AP would eventually (a few minutes) lose knowledge of the association.
>
> This was the problem that was fixed by an update.
>

Updating presently.

Thanks, as always.

KG

>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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