@Michael Arg, hm. I thought th whole time about how the previous line "depends on arch[i]tecture, the weather, the phase of the moon...." was referring to the FAA airport clearance safety standards for 5G. I mean not penetrating aircraft radar, has very similar language. I swear I know the frequencies for Wifi might sound the same but are not equivalent, but I swear someone else would read what I read too. =) Too much tangent for a tech chat, or not enough tangent to scatter the radio signal? :)
partial serious as well. :∫ I am paying way too much for Google Fiber for a hotspot I do not require often (but helps greatly in a crunch, worth going bankrupt for a month sometimes), which beats any WIFI connection signal quality I can afford.
Ack, I mean Google Fi. Which feels like a fiberoptic line. Count on me to call Fi as Fiber. :/ I guess the humor is that when I tried to pay for Verizon FIOS, I got DSL.
@JourneymanGeek I did mention having all devices upgraded...
@prosody-GabeVereableContext heh, after 30 years is there finally a cell phone standard that actually has an influence on avionics? :rolleyes:
apparently the 'turn your devices off' thing at take off is because the FCC was worried in the early 90s its gen 1 cell phone towers (capable of... 30 connections?) would eventually get overloaded by unsuccesful handshakes from 300 people passing over at 900 kph... Somehow this got interpreted over time as the FAA being concerned about interference with aircraft systems :)
As an experiment I've flown a good half dozen times around the globe with everything turned on... I eventually stopped because it saves battery life on long flights, but otherwise (at least up to now), there is zero effect
I have to manually set the channel on my 5GHz network because, when set to automatic channel selection, my router always chooses a channel that my computer's WiFi card does not support.
So, every now and then, my computer will loose connection and I have to change the channel to something else, presumably because other routers in my apartment building are creating congestion over the currently selected channel.
I read that this is because certain 5GHz channels are used by weather stations, so modern WiFi equipment stopped supporting those channels for this reason.
My router is fairly old, so when it's in automatic channel selection mode, it must see that there is no traffic on these channels and switch to it.
weren't some channels excluded in the US due to different spectrum allotments, so instead of opening them selectively for the EU, they just kept them closed?
I vaguely recall channels 11 and 13, very vaguely though
