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Spent a whole Saturday wrestling with a wireless zone expander that refused to link up

Turns out an old fluorescent light ballast in the basement was absolutely cooking the RF signal, took me 6 hours to finally walk around with a spectrum analyzer and spot it. Anybody else had something random kill their wireless range on a panel upgrade?
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jenny47
jenny4725d ago
Wait, aren't ballasts usually the issue on the 5GHz band more than 2.4?
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avery_jackson
I heard fluorescent ballasts are notorious for spewing RF noise on the 2.4GHz band.
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piper779
piper77926d ago
Oh man, tell me about it... those things are awful.
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