quinta-feira, 14 de maio de 2009

Blame baby monitors, not congestion, for your WiFi woes

URL: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/UJP4N2g447Y/blame-baby-monitors-not-congestion-for-your-wifi-woes.ars


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Many users chalk up WiFi connection problems to congestion, especially when living in apartment buildings or urban areas; there's just too much data being pushed through those 11 meager channels! But a thorough new report (PDF) commissioned by UK regulators sent researchers into the streets to pinpoint WiFi's connection problems, and the culprit turns out to be... baby monitors.

Well, not just baby monitors, of course; any device that shoots radio energy into WiFi's 2.4GHz spectrum creates interference, and it's interference (not congestion) that lies at the root of most perceived problems with WiFi.

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