Pat Farrell;268497 Wrote: > Well, I know that when the wife zaps food, my WiFi goes away.
Microwave ovens leak - some more than others. And since they're transmitting at ~2.4 GHz, they act as a source of interference to other 2.4 GHz devices. I've heard that you can use a fluorescent bulb to check for leaks. Just wave it around the door and the back, if it glows - it leaks. I also remember from an RF detector circuit in the "200 in 1" electronics kit I had when I was a kid that microwave ovens emit all sorts of RF. I'm fortunate in that mine doesn't leak, at least not enough to affect wireless. Like 86atc250r, I do find that rain (or at least high humidity) does all sorts of odd things to electrical devices in my home. Wireless is affected and my subwoofer will turn on merely from the interconnect weakly picking up 60 Hz from the nearby mains. Water molecules do absorb and diffuse RF across the spectrum. Sean's article is correct though, their natural resonant frequency is not at 2.4 GHz. -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: "I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon." SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, production SBC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43239 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
