I’ve received a few mails from people who haven’t yet bought an Aspire One who are being put off by reports that the wireless connectivity is a little flaky.

In particular, the concerns regard an article posted on the Acer Aspire One User Forum.

I asked Simone for his input on the subject and his reply was:

On the one reported occasion when this happened, it was resolved by performing a Live Update, yet the forum says that after recovery with CD / USB key the system no longer sees the wireless connection or doesn’t allow it to work, so this is another issue entirely.

In any case I believe the problem will soon be brought to the attention of Acer.

For now, I can’t add much more. Here in the lab I have preload Version 1.0.3.E in Italian and have never had this problem and the 4 samples that have come and gone functioned perfectly.

I would ask, however, all clients of the Aspire One to have the following information on hand when they contact Acer:

1- BIOS version
2- Operating System version (both are in “Settings” “Information”)
3- Proof that Live update has been performed: this can be done by clicking on the search icon and entering “*.log” and then selecting “desktop”, hit “enter” or click on the icon to start searching.
On the search results page, select “file system” unless it’s not already loaded and click on “search”
Among the many files there’s one (usually the second from the top) called: installed-success.log

This file records all the updates performed by LiveUpdate and it’s EXTREMELY USEFUL for us to have a copy of this file or a copy of the content.

Important:
Some users will have found inconsistent or even different contents when comparing their Aspire One installed-success.log files to others. It all depends on what language the operating system uses and the version of the operating system used in the preload. That’s why Mr. Rossi in Italy will have one patch while Mr. White from the UK does not and vice versa.
The moral of the story: YOUR OWN PERSONAL LOG FILE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT COUNTS.

So Live Update seems to be working overtime at the moment and obviously the learning curve for perfection is pretty steep but it’s good to know that the Acer has every intention of improving this product on a daily basis. Fingers crossed this issue gets cleaned up definitively in the next few days.

For the record, both the pre-production model I “borrowed” and the one I bought have not had these problems at all. In fact, in a video I’m still editing you can see me take the Aspire One out of the box, attach the battery and cables and go online within 5 minutes.

UPDATE: Found this on the web. worth a try no?

…there’s a power saving option on the wireless adapter that is turned to maximum by default. To turn it off, right click my computer > properties > hardware tab > device manager… then find your wireless adapter in the list under Network Adapters, right click > properties > advanced tab. Select Power Save Mode from the list on the left and select Off from the drop down on the right. Press OK and close device manager.