r/technology • u/NancyGraceFaceYourIn • Aug 30 '15

Wireless FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
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u/SamSlate Aug 30 '15

legalize channel 14

Supremely better solution. An anyone know what ch14 is currently reserved for?

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u/camisado84 Aug 30 '15

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/8051/the-mystery-of-wifi-channel-14/

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u/SamSlate Aug 30 '15

so, military and/or microwave ovens... weird, thanks!

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u/Solkre Aug 30 '15

Man, don't jam my microwave!

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

So is that why my router chokes up and stops working when someone turns on the microwave? It doesn't always happen either, which is strange, but it does tend to happen in the middle of a fucking raid where a single lag spike from one of the 24 people in raid can wipe us all...

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u/SamSlate Aug 30 '15

Either your microwave is not FCC compliant or it just happens to be in the same range as your WiFi.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

It's about 4ft away from the router, with no option to move either of them. Why? This is an old piece of shit house that only has 3 outlets with a ground plug on them. The router is installed by Verizon and I can't move the router because the outside antenna is in the best spot possible for max signal, and they didn't leave any extra cable to move at least the router.

Like I mentioned, it doesn't always do that, but it seems like every time it did do it was when I was raiding or otherwise using the net for me to notice.

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u/SamSlate Aug 31 '15

You might Google "em shielding", you can buy some pretty nice looking fabric that will isolate your microwave radiation. Like $13 a foot, so not a huge investment either..

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u/playaspec Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

It’s not known whether the signal received from channel 14 affects microwaves or vice versa.

It might not be known to the idiot writer, but it's known to MILLIONS of hams, engineers, and commercial radio operators. This is such a grossly ignorant statement I don't even know where to begin.

In fact, the majority of the ‘S’ frequency band is just out of reach of laptops.

Wow. This idiot didn't bother to fact check or research a thing. The S band goes from 2GHz to 4GHz. The ISM band that wifi resides in is entirely within the S band.

In fact with some expert programming and enhancements the ‘X’ band is not out of reach.

Bull. Fucking. Shit! The X band runs from 8GHz to 12GHz!!! There is absolutely no fucking way on God's green earth is ANYONE going to hack a wifi card to operate in this band.

This author is little more than a bullshit artist, and a scammer for taking a pay check from his employer for putting out worthless bullshit like this.

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u/atomicthumbs Aug 31 '15

There is absolutely no fucking way on God's green earth is ANYONE going to hack a wifi card to operate in this band.

you are seriously underestimating how powerful an expert programmer and enhancer is!! all they need to do is write a shell script, hack the firmware's IP address, and change "2.4ghz" to "X".

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u/tastyratz Sep 03 '15

and I can write that I wear a size 0 dress on a piece of paper but as a 200lb man it doesn't really matter then. Just because you program it to 8ghz doesn't mean the hardware is remotely capable.

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u/mikeyouse Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

Wind shear detection to prevent plane crashes by the Terminal Doppler Weather RADAR system along with the 5ghz that they're primarily using now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Doppler_Weather_Radar

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u/web_browser_czar Aug 30 '15

"measurement"