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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by Jaruzel on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:54AM (#21967935)
> Currently the neighbor across the street and two houses up is putting out so much power that it drowns out my AP two rooms away.

Give your neighbour a dose of their own medicine: Get a directional high db antenna, set a spare WiFi AP to the same channel, and point the antenna at your neighbours house. Then set up a looping script that copies data to constantly saturate that AP.

Not that I've ever done this, or advocate anyone actually doing it... ;D

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by Faark on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:57AM (#21970073)
Unless actual malice is involved, the neighbor will probably just wonder why the wlan is shit and buy a "better" (stronger) one. Sounds much like a good old coordination problem to me.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by WorldMaker on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:22PM (#21973473)
Yeah, it's a basic tragedy of the commons, where the commons is noisy to begin with radio spectrum.
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