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Unread 03-10-2013, 23:59
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Re: Android Tablets

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Originally Posted by MooreteP View Post
I was one of the volunteers who circled the dome searching for the source of the interference. We were scanning for WiFi hotspots, not bluetooth.
There may have been a cautious reaction on the part of the field personnel to add Bluetooth to list of shutdown requests in the vicinity of the FTC fields.

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There is a lot of BS going around about WiFi interference.
Though I have a vested interest in this, I think we need to stop the witch hunt and address the real technical issue.
The FRC robots currently use 5GHz 802.11N. (I think)
There should be no interference to them from 2.4GHz 802.11G or Bluetooth.
I don't know anything about FTC/FLL, but WiFi is not a threat to FRC.
And even if someone is transmitting 5GHz, the robots NEED to be resilient.
FIRST-FRC needs to pull the head out of the sand and find out the true cause of WiFi problems.