You are a network technician for a consulting company. A small company with several wireless access points has been experiencing intermittent outages for employees near the break room. What is most likely the cause?
Microwave ovens operate on the same 2.4 GHz frequency as many Wi-Fi networks. The intermittent outages are likely being caused by people using the microwave oven in the break room. More recently, 5 GHz wireless networks have grown in popularity, and they do not share this problem, but many devices support both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands to maintain compatibility with older hardware.
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