@Steve.... Awesome.... Enjoy.... Now maybe you can help Nomad... he has the same problem you had.... One of these days I will eventually head across the pond to see England and France.... I will take you up on your offer... Once we get good and wrecked we can head over to Rich's house and pee in his garden...

:P Sounds like a plan Richard.

I have to ask though for future reference, any thoughts to why the laptop and v4 wouldn't connect ad-hoc? I'm not to bothered for now as I wanted it in client mode anyway for Pandorabots, but it would be nice to know why I had the problems that I did?

@Steve.gibb5 we have had a few people unable to connect with HP computers in particular, we are still investigating the issue. It looks like it might be that a WiFi driver update is required. Some users have got around it with a $10-$15 USB WiFi dongle.

Jeremie, forgive me if this is in the spec sheet, but I am posting from my phone. What protocol is the EZ-B? G, N, ac? 2.4ghz or 5ghz?

My work laptop (a fairly new HP laptop) has trouble with 2.4 ghz when there is a 5ghz signal visible. I haven't spent much time investigating it, but noticed it when I got a new 5ghz rrouter but wanted to test my 2.4ghz ghz guest network.

Alan

No prob, the EZ-Bv4 WiFi is 2.402GHz to 2480GHz b/g/n.

Ok, good to know Jeremie.

Funnily enough, throughout my problem solving today, one of the things I tried was updating my wireless driver, but had a message back saying it was already up to date. Now I know how to set it up now I might try connecting ad-hoc again to see if it works. I might consider a cheap wifi dongle for scripting, testing ect for the time being.

FYI for your investigation, my laptop as mentioned before is a HP650 business end notebook which is coming up to 2 years old now, and has a Ralink RT5390R 802.11b/g/n 1x1 Wi-Fi network adapter. I got to the point where all my firewalls were disabled and anti virus uninstalled as you suggested. I hope this info helps you guys and hope you manage to find a solution.

Thanks for your help.

Steve

Thank you very much Steve, we appreciate the info!

Hi all. I have a similar challenge, except I want to stay in ad hoc mode! We want to take the bots out of the lab and onto the streets, ala Spider Dog (check out the YouTube video), so we want to control the bots without routers i.e. ad hoc.

We have 2 laptops that connect ad hoc and 3 desktops that will not. Yeah, so laptops; what's the problem? Well, we'd like to know what causes the issue so we know we could use any laptop to control the bots.

If the bot's wifi circuitry is not responding to all ad hoc requests, is there a possibility other circuitry might resolve this random issue? If it's the wifi dongle, what's a make/model that people know work that we might use as the main connection point for any laptop? I'm also wondering if there could be a problem with Windows security settings or some other configuration issue that's causing this to happen.

We taking to the streets! Any help figuring this one out will be appreciated.

DMS