That is pretty similar, Thanks  for pointing it out. Good read.


Yeah that plot I almost photoshopped for product advertisements ☺ not that I’m 
suggesting that’s done at all

I wasn’t paying attention to max signal at the time. Not sure on the duty 
cycle, It could be just the proximity or perhaps even the throughput was higher 
on test 2…. Proximity seems to be a fair target.  Again I wasn’t paying close 
attention, and I can’t identify which test that was as I’ve been running 
iperf’s flatout out for another reason (post coming soon)

I can replicate this test on my Lenovo(intel 7260) but it’s much less 
pronounced and a bit more messy. This could be because of what side of the 
laptop my adapters on,  different build quality  or I guess even connection 
rate of the different chip. You’ve provided somethings for me to try when I get 
a bit more time


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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4 GHz Interference

Might check this out:
http://revolutionwifi.blogspot.com/2014/08/80211ac-adjacent-channel-interference.html?m=1

There's and image there you should find similar.

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On Mar 8, 2017, at 4:58 PM, Chuck Enfield 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Cool images.  I’ve never tried this.  I would have this afternoon, but our 
operations guys have the spectrum analyzer in another building.  I’m a little 
surprised to see as nice a plot as you got in the second trace.  Between near 
field effects and the potential to push the Rx amplifiers into a non-linear 
region I would have expected something more messy.

Do you know what the max signal strength was in the two traces?  Also, do you 
know how to account for the increased duty cycle in the second one?  I’m 
wondering if this is due to different iperf behavior or if it’s weirdness 
caused by proximity.  I’ve been doing Wi-Fi for 15 years and still find myself 
guessing on a regular basis.

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Still learning my way through signatures but I have been caught out before with 
the anaylzer being too close to a wifi source
Below shows this on channel 132, using iperf  for a data burst in the first 
image the anaylzer is 1m away from a Mac Air,
In the second it’s a few centimetres away from it. You can really see the 
impact on neighbouring channels at that distance  (I think there’s even a bit 
in the 36-40 area)

I now keep the anaylzer away from wifi devices as much as possible ☺

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4 GHz Interference

Nope, the spectrum analyzer is going directly into a Surface Pro 2.


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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4 GHz Interference

Are you using a USB 3.0 hub?


On Mar 8, 2017, at 1:23 PM, Jason Heffner 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I’ve seen something similar when running some of the older Cisco controllers. 
If you ruled out everything else and are starting to look for devices causing 
interference I'd check out some of your wireless mic systems. We had some 
800Mhz that we had to salvage that were causing harmonic distortion on 2.4GHZ 
similar to this on the lower channels.
On Mar 8, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Gray, Sean 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I’ve been doing a little spectrum analysis around campus and I keep seeing the 
same interference signature in different buildings. I was wondering if anyone 
had seen anything like this before. It is typically visible for well over 10 
minutes at a time and then it completely disappears.

Thanks

Sean


Sean Gray | B.Sc (Hons)
Voice, Collaboration & Wireless Network Analyst
ITS, University of Lethbridge


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