I have been on a family owned site with 150 residential units for the past week. I have been working on shoring up our customer OpenMesh network. It is a standard OpenMesh system using 2.4ghz and some 5ghz network nodes to provide internet access to our customers on the site.

Over the past 4 days we have had 4 major police events coming on to the property to do drug busts. Tonight there was an armored vehicle and some of the Police units were in full military gear. We are less than half a mile from a military base, and when their members are involved there might be some military presence however this is the first time I have seen military hardware.

2 of the 4 nights the police were active at our site, our Wifi nodes within 300 meters of their activity has stopped working. At first I was unable to differentiate between the issue we have as a natural part of our infrastructure problems, but now I am certain. Where these police are operating, they are disrupting wireless and Cell Phone communication.