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[gweigleb]

I broke down and bought a Belkin wireless G router for $39.99.

Installation with my DSL was a snap with the installation CD. No problems at all.
But ... XO wouldn't connect with it. I read all the help posts here and still wasn't sure what to do.

After a while I looked at XO again and it had connected automatically. Still it was sporadic. Most of the time it wouldn't connect. Now all of a sudden it connects all of the time! usually when I turn it on and just wait a minute. Weird, but I'm not complaining!

I didn't set up a password so it's an open connection for now but it probably doesn't reach much past my home.

ps ... the funniest Mesh Icon I've seen was labeled 'bite me'

[Mike Lee]

Did you have the mesh ears up the whole time? I read a while back that the production XOs for the first time have a metallic spray coating for RF shielding in the white housing under the mesh antennas. When the mesh antennas are down, the signal drops significantly due to inteference with the coating. The prototype XOs can connect pretty well to wifi with the antennas down.

[koaziji]

I've noticed that when I first turn the xo on, it sees my secure WPA network and tries to connect to it. After a couple of minutes it finds my unsecured connection and grabs it. Sometimes the signal fluctuates a lot, and this can really slow down the connection. There's no good reason why the connection would fluctuate and it doesn't appear to on other computers. I'm wondering if the thing is both more powerful and more sensitive.

I can see mesh icons for each wireless computer in my home. And if  you check the wireless networks on another computer, you won't see the regular computers, but you do see "olpc wireless" listed as an available network. Haven't figured out how to mesh with regular computers yet.