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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Truthfully, I have never found Microwave ovens to be a true source of interference. I have a desktop machine underneath my microwave in the kitchen, and out of idle curiosity one day I ran some performance tests while the microwave was running full tilt for 6 minutes (sterilizing baby bottles), and I found no effect whatsoever. I have a 2.4ghz cordless phone base on the same countertop surface, and it doesn't cause issues either (although I could see a cordless phone that doesn't use spread spectrum or frequency hopping causing interference in some rare cases)
My suggestion would be that if you find a microwave oven that is causing 802.11 interference, you should probably pitch the microwave rather than buy a new router - it's leaking high energy radio waves, and I doubt that's healthy.
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In my office the main board room is across from the kitchen area, and until we upgraded the wireless anyone using the microwave would disconnect the wireless users in the boardroom.
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