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The Industry Standard: Guest Blog: Doc Searls: WTFone?

By Tris Hussey••1 min read
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Good advice for anyone with WiFi…watch those 2.4 GHz cordless phones (and baby monitors, and microwaves). My 2.4 GHz phone will stick with one channel and not move unless needed, so that keeps the interference down. I’m always keeping an eye on it, though.
The Industry Standard: Guest Blog: Doc Searls: WTFone?: “I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours trying to figure exactly what was causing my IBM ThinkPad T-40, with its 802.11a/b/g card, to hook up with any of four Wi-Fi access points detectable from my desk (three here and one next door), and yet to exchange no data whatsoever. Oddly, it worked yesterday when a techie friend improved it; but when it got back on my desk the suckage set back in. “

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