[G4] Airport interference

[Steve O'Neill]

Hey,I know that one.  It slows down because it has to resend the damaged 
packets.  There is a lot of data checking going on in a network 
connection, especially over the air.  When a checksum fails the packet 
is requested again (nak - negative acknowledgment).  If a 
received-packet-acknowledgment fails, the sender times out and starts 
again with the one that wasn't ack'ed.

It can take up to about 5 times as long in interference situations, but 
the data arrives intact or not at all (but you'll know it).

I have a Airport 1 about 50 feet from my Mac, and I have these problems 
when it rains.

Todd Flashner wrote:
> Wondering how the airport (and/or 3rd party wireless products) stand up to
> interference from microwave ovens and 2.4GHz phones.
> 
> When interference is present does it merely slow the transfer rate down or
> will it corrupt data? IOW, if I'm trsfering a large file, like and
> application, or video clip, across the network while another 2.4GHz gadget
> is in use what is the likely outcome upon my transfer?
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd