Snow Leopard will not install on Macbook Air--have spent days on this!

Hi, all!
I have tried almost 10 times to install the Snow Leopard upgrade to my MacBook Air via the remote disk and it has either frozen, quit, or disconnected each time (freezing is the most common occurrence). It takes 5 or more hours to get to that point. The computer with the disk in it is a MacBook (Intel), and both computers have plenty of space available and are running on the same secure wireless network, so there shouldn't be a problem. (I have installed applications between these two computers before.)
This is incredibly frustrating, so any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Lisa

It's highly likely that your wireless network is the problem. Normally I'd recommend grabbing a couple pieces of CAT5 and hooking both machines up via wired network temporarily but that's not an option with the Air.
You could try at least connecting the MacBook via wire, eliminating at least half the wireless contention (turn off the wireless on it to be sure you're using the wire). Since you've already tried 10 times, an 11th probably isn't out of the question.

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