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by More2Be on November 22nd, 2009
A microwave oven may be emitting at the same, or nearly the same frequency as WiFi, if your Internet is wireless. Some of that microwave radiation does leak from the appliance. If that fits your scenario then your computer WiFi receiver would be overwhelmed with RF noise from the microwave.
http://www.designnews.com/blog/The_Weird_and_Wonderful_World_of_Wireless/11580-Why_do_microwave_ovens_interfere_with_WiFi_reception_Or_do_they_.php
I have been the victim of computer hacking and theft. Can you please advise me what I should do?
by GREENPEAS on March 20th, 2011
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I just can't get enough reach of signal with my WL-309 (gaming router 2)
Can I buy an other antenna to improve the signal?
by Surethingyea on August 3rd, 2011
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is there a website that explaines the connection between either ecast networks and mytouchtunes app OR between ecast and AMI entertainment?
by aaronp002 on March 28th, 2011
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The Internet is running out of IP addresses or already has. You can't just print 'em up like money I guess when you run out. Now what?
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on June 9th, 2011
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whats the difference between lose & loose
by cristabelinterior on June 5th, 2011
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Well the thing is, it is wireless but the router is actually not in this house. It is in the main house and this is the guest house. Our microwave is nowhere near the router and the internet at the main house does not go down when our microwave is in use.
by Nanny on November 22nd, 2009
That much more reason. Back in military days we referred to what the microwave is doing as "jamming". Your wireless reception is taking a relatively weak signal from a separate house. The transmitter, as you mention in a different house, keeps on transmitting. No change. What does happen is the MW RF from the oven is at or near the same frequency, leaks from the oven and overpowers the weak router signal.
For an analogy imagine listening to a radio station while you are in a fringe area. The signal gets weak. Imagine a nearby antenna blasts white noise on the same radio frequency (or channel if you want to call it that). Your reception of the faraway radio station would be blown away by the white noise from the nearby transmitter. The faraway radio station transmitter is still up and working. It is just your reception of it, in your area and with the interfering transmitter, that is affected.
Make sense now?
by More2Be on November 22nd, 2009