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 2.4 GHz frequency same as many WiFi networks. The intermittent outages are likely being caused by people using the microwave oven in the break room. More recently 5 GHz wireless networks are growing in popularity which do not share this problem, but many support both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands to support older devices.
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