Not Sniffing, But... The FCC's 3.5 GHz WiFi Proposal
I have some interesting stuff about the topic that this blog is supposed to be about (WiFi sniffing) coming soon. I promise. But the FCC made some news concerning WiFi today, and I want to help people understand it. This post is happening because of what the FCC did in March, 2014. What the FCC actually did was (probably) kill WiFi channels 52 to 144 by imposing new rules (the effects of which we have yet to see, because APs approved by the FCC prior to March, 2014 do not have to follow the new rules) that make WiFi devices more likely to work poorly when Doppler RADAR is on those channels. What the FCC claimed they did was " increase availability of spectrum for high speed, high capacity " WiFi. Technically, the FCC can claim to be something other than liars. The March, 2014 rules did increase spectrum availability in a narrow sample of use cases. What was really going on, however, was the FCC doing the bidding of Doppler RADAR operators (who, ...