IPhones flooding wireless LAN

I wonder what other unintended consequences we’ll see coming out of iphone-mania.

the network administrators at Duke University, are reporting temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time.

apparently it’s due to misbehaving iPhones flooding the access points with up to 18,000 address requests per second, nearly 10Mbps of bandwidth, and monopolizing the AP’s airtime.

Source: davidnaylor.co.uk via mtippett

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