[lug] hardware question

[Nate Duehr]

And according to Dan's corollary, as soon as I walk into your office
with an RF spectrum analyzer to find and kill the culprit, your tablet
would start working perfectly.  :-)

(In other words, it IS possible to measure and "see" RF interference
sources and coordinate frequency use, but in an environment where
multiple products are all using the same spectrum, anything goes...)

What's weird here in your example (but not unheard of) is the Wacom
isn't wireless, right?  It's wired?  Sounds like some SERIOUS heavy-duty
RF fields from that radio station are getting rectified in the wires and
some engineer saved $0.30 not putting RF bypass capacitors on the PC's
serial/parallel port.  

(That's an assumption... if it's USB... whoo boy do you have a lot of RF
floating around!!)  

:-)

--
  Nate Duehr
  nate at natetech.com

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:20 -0700, "Chris Riddoch" <riddochc at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Jack Swope <jack.swope at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > Magic is key, a certain people have the right aura.  As a system and
> > desktop admin, I have fixed more email, web, and application problems
> > simply by walking into the affected person's office ;-).
> 
> Here's a rather frustrating one that this makes me think of...
> 
> I have a wacom tablet, which I use all the time.  When I took it with
> me to a job I once had, it became unusable - the pointer was jumping
> all over the place, only bearing a vague resemblance to where the
> stylus was pointing.  At home, it worked fine.  At every coffee shop,
> library, or friends' place I've taken my laptop to, it works fine.
> Just at that one office, it wouldn't work.
> 
> Probably not coincidentally, coworkers couldn't use wireless mice, and
> the 802.11 was slow and unreliable.
> 
> I blame it on the radio station tower planted a hundred feet away from
> the office.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Riddoch
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