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Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

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On 10/9/23 10:08, Lee wrote:
> On 10/8/23, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>> On 10/8/23 07:43, Lee wrote:
>>> On 10/7/23, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Am 07/10/2023 um 11:11 schrieb gene heskett:
>>>>> Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity
>>>>
>>>> This is an urban legend and an excuse I was using when I was in tech
>>>> support.
>>>
>>> It's real.  Try it yourself - run iperf for 2 minutes, display the
>>> bandwidth report every second and then start the microwave for 1
>>> minute.
>>>
>>> I get the thruput cut in half or or more when the microwave is on.
>>> Which is an improvement on the previous microwave which used to kill a
>>> wireless connection. (which was super annoying when the wife was doing
>>> work-from-home & I wasn't allowed to use the microwave _at_all_ during
>>> the day.  I suspect that's the reason she got a toaster oven)
>>>
>>> Is it fairly well-known that microwave ovens interfere the most on channel
>>> 11?
>>> I just tried linssid again and there's a bunch of APs on channel 1 &
>>> 6, one on channel 2 and two on channel 8.  Nothing on channel 11.
>>
>> That, again probably, would be because the microwave does NOT transmit
>> an SID,
> 
> It doesn't transmit anything resembling a wifi frame (packet?), it's
> just noise as far as the wifi interface knows.. and not something that
> shows up on a wifi analyzer like linssid.
> 
> You need a spectrum analyzer to see wifi noise/interference.  I just
> took a quick look again for an affordable spectrum analyzer & didn't
> see anything.  Then again, my definition of "affordable" is under $50
> so I suppose that's not to surprising.
> 
True, a decent spec analyzer starts with the Siglent offering at a 
little over $3G's, so your $50 is missing some zero's.  Really broadband 
that can see beyond 3 gigahertz costs real money and will spend time in 
the cal lab annually because their front end is that fragile, some can 
be destroyed by a 10 milli-watt input signal.
> Regards
> Lee
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-10-05 11:50 +0200
  Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-07 11:20 +0200
    Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-07 13:20 +0200
      Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-07 17:30 +0200
          Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-07 17:50 +0200
            Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-08 01:10 +0200
              Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-09 11:40 +0200
        Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2023-10-08 13:50 +0200
          Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-08 19:10 +0200
            Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2023-10-09 16:10 +0200
              Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-09 16:30 +0200
          Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-09 11:50 +0200
            Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2023-10-09 16:30 +0200
              Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-09 17:10 +0200
                Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-09 17:40 +0200
      Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-07 18:30 +0200
      Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2023-10-09 13:50 +0200
        Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-09 16:20 +0200

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