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Old 15-09-2011, 18:12   #6
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Re: laptop

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Originally Posted by Waldo Pepper View Post
Laptop power supplies are known as switched mode. They are notorious for radiating noise. Although I have never heard of them blocking WiFi, it maybe worth trying to move the power supply as far as possible from the laptop.

Otherwise Rob's suggestion sounds plausible (although I have never heard of WiFi being disabled on battery either).
Very doubtful if they'd send harmonics all the way upto 2.4ghz

It's probably not the wifi manager but instead some sort of laptop proprietary software with form of profile that's disabling the wifi on AC
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