On Wed Oct 28 2015 19:26:05 CDT, Justin Dover <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> IT does require a good wireless network because WiDi piggy backs on your 
> wireless routers.

??  Maybe I'm not understanding things, but I thought that WiDi didn't use your 
Wi-Fi access points.

<https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/pro-wireless-display-white-paper.pdf>
 talks about how WiDi was designed to avoid overlap with enterprise wireless 
network channel usage by avoiding the DFS channels at least, but it still 
doesn't prevent random users from setting these things up and inadvertently 
setting them to a non-DFS channel that is already in use.


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