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Jul19
One Very Good Reason to buy an iPhone - It Disrupts Duke University Wireless Networkd

Apple Inc.'s new iPhones appear to be jamming the wireless networks at Duke University.

A Duke staff geek sad "an analysis of traffic found that iPhones flooded parts of the campus' wireless network with access requests, freezing parts of the system for 10 minutes at a time."

One iPhone was powerful enough to cause the problem and the network has more than 100 registered. What's more, classes don't begin for another month or so.

Apple and Cisco Systems, Duke's network provider are trying to

pinpoint the problem.iphone.duke.jpg

Meanwhile, Apple is trying to figure out how to make this happening part of a new marketing campaign.

"Can't get your homework done on time? Call a friend, listen to music on your iPhone. It will stop the university in its tracks until you have time or desire to catch up."

So far Duke is the only university reporting problems....so far.

 


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That's funny! Never heard of a Blackberry jamming wireless networks, of course they're more business oriented and connect to the internet through the network of the carrier and don't need to leach off of nearby hot spots...

NetworkWorld.com: Duke IT staff & their Cisco network confused by Apple iPhones; trade rags take bait

Let me see if I can wrap my head around this -- some bored students figured out what the MAC address range is on the iPhones, and they styled an attack using a couple of Linux machines hidden somewhere on campus to masquerade as Apple 'troublemakers', and are sniggering at the resulting buffoonery created between the Duke 'network admins' and the press.

Hello!?!??!? If these are actually the people responsible for Duke's network, they would have better communication skills -- what they are saying is happening is less unlikely than impossible (unless the iPhone and Cisco's routers' SuperPowers are being boosted by the Earth's yellow sun and are no longer hindered by their original design limitations).

Why has this been going on for several days and yet no one has reported the same issue on another network?

It's because: It's not happening on Duke's network, either. It's a hack. A scam. A ruse.

By some students who can probably be identified by a duct-taped WiFi canon made from a couple of Pringles cans protruding from their backpacks.

The 'reporter' should be ashamed for not doing his homework.

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