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enomar on May 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Blame baby monitors, not congestion, for your WiFi...

Wouldn't making baby monitors that use Wifi mitigate the issue?

bcl on May 14, 2009 [–]

That would drastically increase the cost of baby monitors. Right now they use very simple analog RF techniques. Switching to 802.11 would increase the design complexity and cost.

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