Sattelite Phones and Computers

xewill0155

Hi,

Sorry to be a bit of a troll, but I've been asked to find out if something is possible.

We recently had an unexplained problem in our server room, We found out later that a satellite telephone was being used in a neighbouring office at the same time . I was wondering from a technical point of view if it was possible that a sattellite phone could intefere with a computer system ?

ANY thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Channel Hopper

Oh yes, Anyone that uses a mobile phone near a Korean set top box will confirm that the signal will interfere with the operation

I have no doubt that an uplinking satellite phone will cause disruption within a PC, either directly, or via one of the cables (especially if its running on a wireless network).

How shielded is the server room ?

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gameboy

I use satellite phones here often, but never never had any problems with the office kit.

To get a claer line of sight you have to be outside.

How far away from your server room was this phone being used?

Maybe we've just been lucky.

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xewill0155

thanks for that, I'm not aware of any special shielding in the walls of the server room,
If your interested, a change to one array on a raid controller was being made, when it came back up after the change it had lost both arrays.

Thats not what normally happens !! do you think a Sattellite phone could have been involved?

gameboy

Can't say for certain - you would have to try and replicate the problem (if you're need to know for certain).

My opinion would be it was a coincidence - I would look for anything else that changed.

Losing both RAIDs now that's a big problem!

I have had a least two RAID failures over the last five years where two of five have failed at the same time - not good!

Most of the time they have worked fine, only one failed and was replaced without a problem.

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Channel Hopper

A server room will almost cetainly have shielding, unless the company is not interested in security/espionage.

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