Why is this anyone's problem other than perhaps Duke University's problem. To bog down a network you would need multiple simultaneous connetions and they would have to be doing some intensive bandwidth hogging work, not something I could see happening from an iPhone let alone any handheld UI device. For an iPhone to cause a real noticable problem you would need hundreds, if not thousands of them and it's quite a stretch of the imagination to suggest that you would find nearly that many on campus. I would go so far as to say that you probably wouldn't find 75 in the whole population.
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Why is this anyone's problem other than perhaps Duke University's problem. To bog down a network you would need multiple simultaneous connetions and they would have to be doing some intensive bandwidth hogging work, not something I could see happening from an iPhone let alone any handheld UI device. For an iPhone to cause a real noticable problem you would need hundreds, if not thousands of them and it's quite a stretch of the imagination to suggest that you would find nearly that many on campus. I would go so far as to say that you probably wouldn't find 75 in the whole population.