[kinda OT] home network speed

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 09:47:10AM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Wifi is great for being able to move a laptop around.  It totally sucks
>>> for anything where you want reliable communications.  There are times
>>> my network drops to 35KB/s (when I suspect a neighbour decides to use
>>> the old crap 2.4GHz phone, given the problem always lasts about 1 to 10
>>> minutes before going back to normal).
>>>       
>> For that time period it could just as well be a microwave too.
>>     
>
> My microwave doesn't do it.  My old phone (years ago) certainly did.
> Pick up phone totally killed wifi.
>
> Microwaves are supposed to be shielded.  Cordless phones are supposed
> to send out 2.4ghz (if that's their band) signals.  Many older cheap
> ones didn't seem to care about being good neighbours however.
>   
It is impossible to entirely shield microwave (which is certainly a 
health issue as well, not to be ignored at all, only by fools). Its 
radio-frequency power (inside) is perhaps 10^6 to 10^8 times larger than 
that of cordless phone.

zb.



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