Posted by Migo on Jul 19th, 2007
That’s what Bill Cannon, a technology spokesman at Duke University, thinks. According to him, an analysis of traffic found that the hottest gadget on the market right now froze parts of the wireless networking system for up to 10 minutes at a time by flooding the network with access requests. Thankfully, Apple worked with technology officials at the University to correct the problem before classes begin in August.
One iPhone was strong enough cause the problem, there are currently somewhere between 100 - 150 of them registered on the network, according to Cannon. Network admins have seen this problem nine times in the past week.
Ashok Agrawala, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, thinks that both the iPhone and Duke’s network are to blame. Stating that he thinks the network parameters may not be set correctly to handle the iPhone. He thinks the phone may have problems trying to regain access to a wireless access point. Agrawala went on to say that the phone should have been able to deal with such a problem on its own and doubts that an iPhone can access the network 10,000 times per second as Duke’s analysis shows.
iPhones can access the Internet through AT&T’s Edge Network or through Wi-Fi. However if a hotspot is unavailable it will switch to a slower network, while continuing to search for a Wi-Fi signal.
Officials from other universities have that they have not encountered such a problem on their wireless networks. They are, however, watching the events of Duke University closely should some problem present itself on their campuses.
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