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If you've tried using 2.8ghz WiFi in a crowded apartment building, you'd already know why: tragedy of the commons.

• bobbiechen 7y ago
  The microwave at my house would reliably murder my wi-fi connection whenever you turned it on, which was great fun while playing real-time multiplayer games.
  • m463 7y ago
    I think a microwave oven only hits part of the 2.4 ghz wifi spectrum and if you can lock what channel you're on you can avoid it.
    • ansible 7y ago
      That only works if the microwave oven in question stays within a very narrow band. Some of them don't.
• Dylan16807 7y ago
  To an extent, but that entire band is only 75MHz wide. There are only 2-4 proper channels, and it has twice the range of 5-6GHz, which puts you in competition with an order of magnitude more hot spots.