BEM, MIB . . . or WLAN?

[dr_kromm]

Either the Aliens are trying to send me messages over my stereo, my wife's computer speakers, and occasionally the little iPod speakers on my elliptical machine . . . or the Secret Agents are beaming coded signals from that van out front, but my Treadstone conditioning has failed. Or maybe -- I know, this sounds crazy -- all of these devices are somehow picking up garbage from my wireless network.

Has anybody ever heard of an 802.11g access point causing audible artifacts on random speakers around the house? I swear, it's freaky.

And if it isn't that . . .

Comments

[coyote6.livejournal.com]

IIRC, every cell phone I've owned has induced noise in computer speakers sometimes -- but never the wireless network (and the router is a foot from my dinky speakers).

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that could also be to blame. My wife docks our iPhone about 10cm from her speakers, and we often dock our iPhone on our stereo to use it as an iPod. Unfortunately, neither of us recalls whether it was docked nearby when we heard the weird noises. And of course the iPhone is part of the WLAN, so it isn't necessarily a separate problem.