[mdlug] one laptop per child review

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Brian Hurley wrote:
> I wrote a review of the Old Laptop Per Child XO laptop (formery known as
> the $100 laptop.
> 
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/17/review_xo_laptop_hands_on/

Good review so far, I'm on page 3 where I found this:

> The XO couldn't initially see my Actiontec GT704-WG DSL router. 
> Switching the ESSID from 9 to 5 allowed the XO find it and connect.
> There were reports on the OLPC Wiki about similar connectivity issues with other routers.

So did you change you ESSID from 9 *characters* to 5, or did you change
your one character ESSID from "9" to "5", or what?

Just trying to get a handle on the nature of the problem you are reporting.