According to the IT staff at Morrisville State College, the multiple Xbox 360s on campus are disrupting their recently installed campus-wide wireless LAN network. Morrisville's network was installed this summer based on Meru's WLAN architecture which gives the wireless access points more control over wireless-client transmission behavior. The trouble seems to happen when an Xbox 360 is active near an access point, as it begins to compensate for the competing signal.
Interestingly enough, it's not the USB wireless adaptor that's creating the conflicting signals. Meru's WLAN technology runs on a 2.4 GHz radio band, the same frequencey that the Xbox 360 uses to communicate with it's wireless controlers. The IT staff noticed this when they had trouble syncing their bluetooth headsets to their cell phones in the same WLAN trouble areas being created by an Xbox. Microsoft did not have time to responde before this story was posted
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Interestingly enough, it's not the USB wireless adaptor that's creating the conflicting signals. Meru's WLAN technology runs on a 2.4 GHz radio band, the same frequencey that the Xbox 360 uses to communicate with it's wireless controlers. The IT staff noticed this when they had trouble syncing their bluetooth headsets to their cell phones in the same WLAN trouble areas being created by an Xbox. Microsoft did not have time to responde before this story was posted
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