[ot] microwave and wifi

[Tony Alfrey]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>> What's the frequency of waves used in microwave oven? 
>> 2.4GHz
>> Power?
>> Inside the cavity: several hundred watts up to 1 KW.
>>> What about that of Wi-Fi network?
>> 2.4 GHz for 802.11b
>>  Power?
>> Typical wireless card is +15dbm (32 milliwatts).
>> What's wrong; network dies when you cook dinner?
> 
> It does fairly frequently for me (I nuke coffee much more
> frequently though :-).  My laptop is usually about six feet from
> the microwave and my WAP is a floor below on the far side of the
> house (about sixty feet).

Makes one wonder about the amount of leakage from the microwave oven ;-)



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