Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 11, 2009 @02:55AM from the along-with-my-full-night's-sleep dept.

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."

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Re:WHAT!!!!???? WiFi KILLING BABIES!!!!???? by denzacar · 2009-05-11 04:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That would be some really screwed up baby.

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Re:You know what that means... by Azghoul · 2009-05-11 05:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm surprised you remember what it was like to be a 9 year old.
Or perhaps you meant that your KID was once 9... I'm not sure. :-D