[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: Critical Systems & ISM
Ryan Abbenhuys
sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Mon Aug 5 14:20:04 EST 2002
Could it perhaps generate more noise when there's actually a conversation happening?
>Funny this should come up, because I did some testing last week with this.
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>Using netstumbler on a enterasys card with an average connection to an AP
>(ie around 60%-70% link quality), I stuck my panasonic 2.4Ghz phone right
>next to the card and took it off hook. It barely added 3dB to the noise
>figure and had no impact on the link quality! Also didn't seem to matter
>what channel I used either.
>There was also no noticable change in quality on the cordless aswell.
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>Whats the moral of this story??? I don't know, just thought u guys might be
>interested.
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>Darren Dreis
>Vice President
>Melbourne Wireless Inc.
>vicepresident at wireless.org.au
>http://www.wireless.org.au
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>At 11:22 AM 8/5/02 +1000, lkhoo at csc.com.au wrote:
>>>Speaking of this, has any one noticed the antennas on top of a lot of
>>>traffic lights recently??
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>>>I can't think of any specific intersections at the moment, but I've seen
>>>some.
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>>Yes! I've seen them everywhere and i've always wondered what they were!
>>They are everywhere in the city. From memory I think there is one on the
>>corner of Collins and Queen? Opposite the book shop.
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>>I saw one yesterday day and it looked like a jumbo omni (~ 3m+ high).
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>>I actually found that one of my sites had a heap of wireless stuff
>>installed and I couldn't even tell without really looking for them. They
>>had really small flat panel antenna's. They were about 2cm x 10cm x 5mm
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>>were placed on the corners of hall ways etc. These were then hooked into
>>near by AP's.
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>>Lucas
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>It would be interesting to "see" just what the band occupancy is like,
>with a Spectrum Analyser. I also suspect lots of in house cordless phone
>networks using proprietory protocols are on 2.4GHz too.
>It would be great to snoop the whole bandwidth to see whats going on :-)
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>Jack
>Rockhampton
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