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Re: Internet at Competitions

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
Whenever I use a hotspot (I rarely use one), I have the antenna set to <1mW, so you walk a few feet away and you lose connection, so that would be unlikely to cause any interference (except for the people around me)! However, let's just ditch wifi and use something like BT. As far as I know, I haven't heard of any restrictions on 3G/4G, especially because they operate on completely different frequency bands! Just as a teaser, has a single team ever used ZigBee to communicate internet connection? That would be a cool project.
I have seen nothing that would prohibit ZigBee in the 902-928 MHz band (channels 1-10, iirc ... channels 11-26 are in the 2.4GHz range and would interfere with WiFi).
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