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Re: Einstein 2012

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Originally Posted by stevend1994 View Post
Excellent analogy with the light waves, but my question in response to this theory (and I'm nowhere near an expert, or knowledgeable at all in this field, so it's not rhetorical, it's an actual question) is if it happened so strongly at this level on Einstein this year, why has it not happened in the past? Wasn't last year's control/field system as a whole(minus the Kinect) the EXACT same components as this season?
True...

There was a lot more data being transmitted this year with the camera interface added this year. More data to be decoded properly. That doesn't help us in our situation at Bayou though. We went back to stock code, no camera, no CAN, and still couldn't connect.

I also know that the smart phone market has been exploding for the past few years. I actually can't name any one of my friends, and almost every smart phone has WiFi onboard. I know, at least with my iPhone, if I have the "Ask to Join Networks" switch on in the Wi-Fi menu, it will scan and ask me to join some networks. This creates network congestion, but no one notices it normally because there's not network jam, but get over 1000 people, with say 50% of them carrying around a WiFi enabled smart phone, and I would say you might run into some trouble.

I honestly have no idea... it's all speculation until FIRST comes out with an official statement. It might be a configuration problem on their part with FMS. Who knows for sure?
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