explain xkcd » Wifi http://www.explainxkcd.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:05:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Nachos http://www.explainxkcd.com/2009/10/26/nachos/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/2009/10/26/nachos/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:49:36 +0000 Jeff http://www.explainxkcd.com/?p=206

Image text: 'Cheater!' 'Hey, gaming on wifi? You have only yourself to blame.'

This is another unclear conversation from xkcd right off the bat.  The girl with the white hair calls the house of the girl with the dark hair and the guy.  The guy answers and says that "Megan", the girl with the dark hair can't come to the phone because she is gaming.  The girl in the white hair knew this already because she was playing against Megan.  And probably knew that Megan was gaming over wifi.

Microwaves and wireless routers both transmit at the 2.4GHz range.  In the case of microwaves, they use that range to cook food.  If some of the waves leak out of the microwave, which they invariably do, they will interfere with a nearby wireless router.

And I agree with the comic wholeheartedly, why would you game over wifi anyway?

NOTE: If you haven't headed over to xkcd.com and witnessed the homage to Geocities that Randall has created, you are missing out.

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