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Originally Posted by EricH

I don't know how current this is (and, BTW, use of a 2009 Getting Started guide might not be the greatest idea, given that we're dealing with 2013/14 here--the system has changed), but at least at one time, the field COULD run on 2.4 GHz. That was the theory, at any rate. IIRC, it was actually tried once, partly due to restrictions on the 5 GHz band at one particular event. Suffice it to say that the odds of all 6 robots on the field actually working were pretty close to nil for the first day or so of that event, and not all that much better later (though there was improvement thanks to the field staff working very hard).



Tl;dr: While the field nominally runs on 5 GHz, it (and the robots) can run on 2.4 GHz if needed, and they don't need any more potential interference there than is already there.

Yep. That kind-of doesn't seem too accurate because this is about the 2006? control system!