Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

Derek Trotter expat.arizonan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 23:06:50 MST 2012


It's unfortunate that someone deliberately comes up with something like 
this that adds a lot of junk to a band that's already full of sources of 
interference.  Then there's that 2.4 ghz source you have in your kitchen 
or office breakroom.  I get my internet
connection wirelessly via the library across the street.  My connection 
dies whenever I use the microwave.  While I'm waiting on my burrito to 
cook, I can scan for available networks but won't find any.

Besides cordless phones, what sources of interference are there to 
802.11n networks?

On 6/12/2012 22:36, Michael Butash wrote:
> Agreed, I see stupid hp devices even in enterprise printers they 
> broadcast adhoc 802.11.  Really annoying they make that default, but 
> they treat wifi like bluetooth, and in fact i think it's because of 
> the wifi pan standard being built into things like mice.  Go figure, 
> by HP.  Only a win7 feature, uses a parasitic virtual device to tap 
> it, and from reviews, it seems unreliable as hell.
>
> Bad part is, these show up in enterprise wireless systems like Cisco 
> Wireless Lan Controllers as rogues, can/will attempt to "mitigate" 
> them via a rf ddos as a policy.  It's simply how they deal with 
> security is many installations.
>
> Someones gonna buy a wifi mouse and wonder why their mouse never quite 
> works right, probably just go chew on the poor help desk person.  Not 
> to mention it's just more interference to deal with in an enterprise 
> wireless system in an already crowded 2.4ghz spectrum.  Nothing really 
> wrong with bluetooth, I don't know what they're trying to fix.
>
> I'm curious to see what happens if the standard becomes more prevalent.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/HP-WiFi-Mouse/dp/B00556O4YC
>
>


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