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Re: The communication tides are shifting...

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
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-Prior to one of the matches, I opened a WiFi scanner on my phone. The field uses one 5ghz channel for all 6 networks, and nothing else was using 5ghz for 802.11a/n (b/g only run on 2.4ghz). Cellular networks don't run anywhere near 5ghz (they use 700-800mhz, "PCS" 1900mhz, and a funny "AWS" band that splits uplink/downlink on 1700/2100mhz) and are not the cause of interference (if it is wireless interference, which I don't think it is).
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also include Clearwire's WiMAX service in St. Louis. It uses licensed 2.5Ghz spectrum. Anyone with a Sprint EVO/EVO3D/Moto Photon/Nexus-S/Galaxy-S/Epic and using wireless broadband would be in this group.
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