Todd Walton wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 9:30 AM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wireless is far simpler to deploy, and there's no cables to trip over,
cut, crimp, or yank out of sockets on the XOs.
That makes sense. It *is* a laptop after all. It's supposed to be portable.
-todd
Maybe a little more detail on the networking system on this will help
explain.
The XO expects a mesh network to be more likely available than any
outside connectivity (i.e. The Internet). When you start the networking
app, it displays a screen showing available connections. These are
depicted as little circles at seemingly random locations on the screen,
with your XO in the center. It detects and displays ad-hoc networks
differently from infrastructure (AP's).
It automatically detects other XO's and displays them with the little XO
(upside-down skull & crossbones) symbol. So far, I haven't seen any
other XO's in my area, so I don't know what happens when I find one.
[The networking "Just works". It's enabled by launching the
aforementioned app. The twin external antennas (the little green "Ears"
on top the screen panel) seem to work well to pull in weak signals. And
for those who've told me they expect those to be the first things a kid
will break - they account for two of the three moving parts, the other
being the movable screen - they are rubberized, so they bend when pushed
or hit.]
XO's are supposed to be able to easily share data with each other so
that they can be used for collaborative work (play).
As Gregory said, the expectation is that a group of XO's will become the
network where none previously existed.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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