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Given our recent discussion at this week's NAG meeting regarding wifi anomalies, I thought this post from another list was pertinent and worth sharing here. May I request that someone set up an on-line voting system so that we can choose between The Impact or WKAR? Brian Hoort -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:55 AM Subject: Wireless laptops picking up local radio stations? Hello all, About three years ago, we heard feint music & voices from the closest in our work room. To our astonishment, the music was coming from our Cisco wireless access point and seemed to be a radio station of some sort. We had no explanation but thought it interesting, especially since the AP does not have an internal speaker to reproduce any sound. Two days ago, a teacher brought in a Dell D630 laptop with was playing jazz feintly through the speakers at the Windows desktop. There was no music software running at the time, as I checked the task & process list. The jazz was quite nice, though. And then today, another teacher showed me his HP Tablet PC. It was at the login screen playing some kind of easy listening music. Since it was at the login screen, no software could have been loaded at this point, unless it was a service of some sort. These instances aren't really problems per se, but they are extremely interesting. Do wireless antennae pick up radio signals and somehow amplify them? Has anyone experienced anything like this? Or perhaps we are experiencing the first stages of paranormal activity at Wayne College. :) Thanks! Tom