{"id":199540,"date":"2007-07-17T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/17\/iphones-crash-wifi-network-at-duke\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:53:00","slug":"iphones-crash-wifi-network-at-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/17\/iphones-crash-wifi-network-at-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhones Crash WiFi Network at Duke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2007\/071607-duke-iphone.html\">a small number of  iPhones took down the routers at Duke University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By a small number, it might have been as few as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">two<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The built-in 802.11b\/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the Durham, N.C. school\u2019s pervasive wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. The campus network staff is talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">That\u2019s because the misbehaving iPhones flood the access points with up to 18,000 address requests per second, nearly 10Mbps of bandwidth, and monopolizing the AP\u2019s airtime.<\/span><\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does not play well with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a small number of iPhones took down the routers at Duke University. By a small number, it might have been as few as two. The built-in 802.11b\/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the Durham, N.C. school\u2019s pervasive wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1019,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-schadenfreude","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}