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The Apple nightmare: iPhone can kill your wi-fi network
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Apple’s iPhones may be causing problems with the wireless network at Duke University.

The iPhone can access the Internet through AT&T Inc.’s Edge network or through Wi-Fi. When a Wi-Fi hotspot is unavailable, it automatically switches to the slower network but continues to check for a Wi-Fi signal. So, the problem is the phone’s built-in 802.11b/g adapters, which have been intermittently inundating the school’s pervasive wireless local access network (WLAN) with media access control (MAC) address requests. The iPhone flood the access points with up to 18,000 address requests per second, nearly 10Mbps of bandwidth, and monopolizing the AP’s airtime.

So far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown. A computer science professor at the University of Maryland thinks both the phone and Duke’s network are to blame for the glitches at the university.

An Apple spokeswoman says the company is working with Duke to quickly resolve the issue but didn’t know details or the source of the problem.

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1 Comment posted on "The Apple nightmare: iPhone can kill your wi-fi network"
Mark07 on July 19th, 2007 at 8:14 am #

It is really surprising to know that neither of them are aware of the main cause.Hope they come to know one quickly and resolve this issue for once and all.


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