Dji Spark experience in Lebanon?

I'm no expert on drones at all, and no offense to your friend. But if there's interference on one drone it should be there on another, so buying either wouldn't make difference, if I'm not wrong.

Dji spark works at 5.8Ghz, which is mainly used in Lebanon by ISP companies who put their links up via WiFi. And since nothing regulates that, everyone uses the same channel which results in interference. I used to work at one of these ISP and what we did was change the channel of the antenna, to work at a different frequency than the interfering sources, because they all just use the default one.

Another thing I'd say, is that these ISP connections are sort of a narrow tunnel, and are usually high up, at least 8 floors high. So there shouldn't be a big chance of you constantly hitting those "tunnels"

Also the Dji spark, from what I read, has the capability to switch channels, and even switch to 2.4Ghz, which is mainly home router frequencies, not the thing you'll encounter on streets, and definitely not while skiing.

I think you should just compare the features/pricing of both rather than wifi interference. The bepop seems a lot more expensive

https://newatlas.com/dji-spark-parrot-bebop-2-comparison/50545/

No rules for wireless frequencies are enforced here. If you've ever configured a router, like the common tp-link, you'd see it has 13 channels and a "country". Selecting different countries will enable/ disable different channels. People usually leave it stock, but I do "israel" 8 just cause it's very unlikely for people to chose that cause israel and cause 8 is kind of a random number between 1 and 13. And doing so allows for less interference cause I'd have the only router on that channel.
Same goes with how I used to configure access points at ISPs in older jobs.We had lower pings because of doing the same trick.(except technologies like airmax jumps to the besr channel automatically)
Now where am I going with this?
What I mean is we "should" be choosing the right channels but it's not enforced here. So if the drone has options, just chose whichever one gives you the best performance.

Of course if you ever decided to travel be sure to set it back to whatever is enforced there.

Keep in mind selected country will be broadcasted by your access point.
I doubt your authorities will be concerned by this, but any geek nearby who is capable to see might expose you as "look this guy, he put this country and he is ... ".

nuclearcat wroteKeep in mind selected country will be broadcasted by your access point.
I doubt your authorities will be concerned by this, but any geek nearby who is capable to see might expose you as "look this guy, he put this country and he is ... ".

hahaha

The country setting is to make it easier to tell what channels are enabled, it's not broadcasted
There's no country code in the WiFi standard, not that I know of.Correct me if I'm wrong though.

You'd have to be Israeli yourself if you happen to know the exact frequency they use lol. Or at least researched well.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/80211-wireless-networks/0596100523/ch04.html
Figure 4-38. Country information element
Some AP's transmit country code, some not.
There is some regulations also related to that, for example 802.11d, that restrict using channels depends on your _card_ eeprom settings AND AP country code (it will pick least channels possible), but it's too long story to tell and very vendor specific.

nuclearcat wrotehttps://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/80211-wireless-networks/0596100523/ch04.html
Figure 4-38. Country information element
Some AP's transmit country code, some not.
There is some regulations also related to that, for example 802.11d, that restrict using channels depends on your _card_ eeprom settings AND AP country code (it will pick least channels possible), but it's too long story to tell and very vendor specific.

Could've googled the standard myself, but it was 8am. Couldn't sleep waiting for the leak test to end -all went well-
Thanks for correcting me. I now feel like configuring all routers like so, troll the conspiracy theory people and geeks haha

PS: sorry for hijacking your thread OP