[brlug-general] Wanted - old cheap wifi access points

[Fernando Vilas]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:15:00 Edmund Cramp wrote:
> Right Tim, so my thinking is that an AP on each channel should create a
> fairly uniform bad wifi area no matter what band is tested... or am I
> missing something?
>

If you have a WiSpy key handy, put your laptop in the same room as a microwave 
while you make yourself some tea.  Watch the whole spectrum go nuts.  This 
works better on consumer grade microwaves than corporate, due to different 
shielding requirements.

There was something a while back (a year or 2 or more) on the Daily WTF where 
some genius had installed APs for a college dorm in the same room as the 
communal set of 12 microwaves.  They kept having connectivity issues for some 
reason :-).

Basically, the point is that if you can't get your required number of APs, and 
want a really noisy signal, you could always stick a common microwave next to 
it.  The advantage here is that your experiment keeps you fed while you 
work. :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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