Bad news for those of

Bad news for those of us into groovy wireless networking: "Other uses of the 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) band that's the home of Wi-Fi may result in such widespread interference that Wi-Fi networks won't be possible indoors or outdoors in many urban areas," reports 802.11b Networking News. Very true: at home, where I've got an Apple Airport setup, we've found that our remote control farting machine doesn't work when Airport is turned on. The controller must use a frequency occupied by the (presumably much more powerful) Airport network. That means no farting fun for us, which we can live with, but things could become a bit more serious if our neighbours decided they wanted to use the Airport freqencies themselves. Now, it's squabbles over car parking and fences. In the future: arguments over radio spectrum?