Duke exonerates iPhone from network outage charges

by Darren Murph posted Jul 21st 2007 at 1:30PM

Granted, the original report suggesting that swarms of iPhones actually broke Duke's WiFi network did seem a bit bizarre, and now it appears that the university is freeing Apple's handset from blame. Interestingly, the actual culprit still seems somewhat veiled in secrecy, as we're only informed that "a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service," but never do they exaggerate on exactly what caused the hiccups. Still, Duke also stated that it worked in conjunction with Cisco and Apple in order to "identify the network issue that was causing the problem," and since Cisco stepped in and provided a fix, the prpblem has yet to repeat itself. Looks like you're off the hook on this one, iPhone.

Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Studies, Misc, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: duke, error, failure, iphone, mishap, outage, problem, university, wifi

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Tom @ Jul 21st 2007 2:43PM

I'm guessing he meant "elaborate". Pretty sad.

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NuShrike @ Jul 21st 2007 3:47PM

This comment might explain it: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=251129&cid=19886053

Something to do with Cisco's networking code was optimized for certain Microsoft quirks. Performance would degrade when devices that followed the written spec were around such as Linux or iPhones.

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