‘Is radar breaking my WiFi?’

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The question in the headline was posed yesterday by a reader of Reddit’s section that is devoted to networking.

“This just seems so … far-fetched,” the questioner writes. “I wouldn’t believe it if someone told me this story.”

Here’s his story:

“So, I’m still trying to wrap my head around what happened this morning. I have been chasing a problem with a few of our Aruba Ap105 access points for a few weeks now. They would intermittently lose network access (and generate Nagios alerts) only when school was in session, and only at one school…our highest wireless utilization point across the district. Cisco switches showed packet errors, so that’s where I started.

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Network World Paul McNamara