Did you read comment # 17 on the Bugzilla thread? It doesn't require squatting or a mixing bowl and it WORKS for me, for the guy who wrote the comment (Burgess) and for others who have tried it. The idea is to shield the 770 BRIEFLY while it searches and while it connects. Once it's connected you should be OK. The shielding is done by holding the tablet's screen against yourself and using your hands to cover as much of the back and sides as you can. Is that so hard?

Here are the steps:

(1) Turn to face towards your router. (It's better if you can see the router's LED's, because then the flashing lights will let you know when the N770 has found the router and when the connection has been made. While you are shielding the Tablet, you can't see its own screen.)

(2) Click on the Tablet's WiFi icon.

(3) IMMEDIATELY hold the Tablet against yourself to shield it from most of the extraneous 2.4 GHz signals while it searches.

(4) When it has had time to search, look at the screen. (Flashing LED's on the router can tell you when to do this, so long as no other computer is communicating with the router at the same time.) Usually the Tablet will have found your own connection and maybe a few others through your covering hands.

(5) QUICKLY, before it starts to search again, click on your own connection or on the "Connect" button and IMMEDIATELY shield the Tablet again. (If it is searching again when you look, you might have to start over.)

(6) Give it time to connect and then hold it as you normally would.

This nearly always works for me. It doesn't work when my wife is using the 2.4 GHz portable phone. Maybe it won't work if you have chatty neighbours. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about that.

There's another ITT thread on exactly the same topic:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=23759

And here is the Bugzilla thread again:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082