[ot] microwave and wifi

[Tony Alfrey]

Vu Pham wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 09:43 -0700, 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).
>>
> 
> Last month my customer reported that when her husband started working in
> the morning then she experienced some slow access to the Internet via
> wifi intermittently. Finally she found out it happened when he used the
> cordless phone which uses 2.4Ghz.

Absolutely.  I switched back to a 900 MHz cordless phone to fix this 
problem.  Also the 5.something GHz phones might work, unless you've got 
the 5.something GHz network cards.


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