iPhone Bedevils Durham
Blue Devils live larger than the average college student. And when they return en masse in the fall, they might have to leave one of their toys with the ‘rents.
Apple Inc.’s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.
Bill Cannon, a Duke technology spokesman, said an analysis of traffic found that iPhones flooded parts of the campus’ wireless network with access requests, freezing parts of the system for 10 minutes at a time.
A single iPhone was powerful enough to cause the problem, and there are 100 to 150 of them registered on the network, Cannon said. Network administrators have noticed the problem nine times in the past week.
The ineptitude of Duke administrators, which was fully displayed in their handling of the Lacrosse team non-scandal, might be to blame. Other schools on tobacco road are not experiencing these issues.
Greg James, associate director of data networking at nearby North Carolina State University, said Wednesday that the school hasn’t noticed any issues at its campus in Raleigh despite the usual monitoring of all wireless access points.
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Duke:iPhone maybe be disrupting network
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