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Old 08-29-2002   #12 (permalink)
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Re: Cell phone antennas
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Originally posted by nashr
I walked into a Cingular store yesterday and noticed that cell phones operate in a similar freq range. Would an old cell phone antenna work with 802.11b? What about the old "bag phones"; portable phones from pre-cellular days? Anyone?
nashr,
Cell phones are at 900MHz, far from the 2.4GHz of 802.11b, so a cell phone antenna won't work. So called "bag phones" are just larger model cell phones.
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