Xmas Lights Degrade Wi-Fi Signals, Better Shelve That Holiday Cheer
from the produce-more-celebrate-less dept
It's Christmas season again, which means it's time for the newswires to be stuffed with company press releases that use yuletide gimmicks to bask their brand in (Christmas) lights. One wireless monitoring software vendor is gunning for press today by informing everyone that Christmas Lights deteriorate your Wi-Fi. Using the software they're trying to sell, the company concluded that light-up holiday decorations actually degrade your signal strength by 25%, and increase signal deterioration over distance by one-third. Of course there's an endless sea of things that can impact Wi-Fi signal strength, from low quality baby monitors and metal shelves, to microwave ovens and Bluetooth gear; hopefully the company doesn't deem it necessary to offer up an inane press release for each. Somewhere though, there's a grumpy bottom-line boss tearing down electronic Christmas cheer and plug-in cubicle Christmas trees in the name of productivity.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Wifi cheer
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Outlaw Xmas
Xmas: The Season of Thievery.
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Re: Outlaw Xmas
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Homeland Security
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Isn't this a positive?
Seems like a win win situation for GE. :)
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Stop giving a shit about a 25% decrease in speed.
If you really want to get your download in 3 minutes instead of 4, go die, or better yet, hardwire yourself.
I know, it's a radical concept. Ethernet cables are extremely expensive these days.
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Flashing Christmas Lights
That should lead to a net wi-fi speed reduction of just 12.5% :)
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re: JumperPunk
Wifi, is spotty at best, (and it's on my laptop, not my desk).
So, go out, buy a switch and $200 feet of cable, drill a couple holes, and have your full bandwidth.
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ok
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Dont forget those Reindeer with their big Antlers!
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WI-FI intereference
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