[Peck]

Hey, my team had some wireless problems at the CO reg. and After going through every possible solution we (and the volunteers and every person we could think to call) could think of, one of our mentors looked at the detailed info for the wirelesses in the area and found one (completely illegal by competition rules) that was running on the same frequency as the field. After a little searching, we found them (detailed signal strength readings helped a lot) and asked them to turn off their wireless (which they promptly did and apologized for having up). The next match (our first quarter final match), we were fine. It took us Friday and Saturday to get it to run. only reason we got into the elims was a team picking us in hopes that we would be able to beat everyone like we had Thursday even though our drivers had essentially spent 2 days doing no driving (tx for giving us the shot).

some may ask why it was only us, we figured that out fast: our robot had the highest bandwidth usage there thanks to all the live data we were almost constantly pulling.

moral of this story:
1. check to make sure nobody is running wireless in the field area BEFORE you rebuild your robot trying to fix connection issues.

2. Don't make wirelesses and make sure others don't too (the source doesn't madder, wireless hotshots are going to hurt the competition). The rule on not making wireless networks is there for a reason. All those robots use alot of bandwith and any active network can take some away.