[Emil_Barr]

Jamming isn't a wireless bonus (or even wireless functionality if you don't follow Catalyst's RAI). Only excluding specific items is a wireless bonus, so at worst you lose that option.

Different sources of noise stack with each other, you don't face the same noise factor twice.

By the way, let's not forget the ultimate Missions approach: Buy 8 Alphaware Datajacks at chargen for 0.64 essence and 9.6k nuyen, get a Rating 6 Jammer afterwards, and buy (at chargen) a rating 6 Commlink that you slave your datajacks and other gear to. You're in 2+ Noise in the CZ, the Jammer provides 6 noise (and you don't need its wireless bonus), so any hacker faces 8+ Noise against you. At best they'll scrub+jack 3, keeping them at a -5 to hack your 6x2 dice. Have fun! And you got 8 Noise Reduction yourself so even without the wireless bonus of the jammer you keep your wireless bonuses on ALL your gear at any noise below 5. So only if the CZ Noise goes to 5+ you'd have to switch the wireless bonus of your jammer on (and slave it to your commlink) to be able to access all your wireless bonuses.

So has it been made official somewhere that the noise reduction frommultiple datajacks is cumulative?

[Michael Chandra]

By Aaron's declaration, yes, shortly after he stated his answers now all have the official label.

[Mithlas]

I wonder if it will be possible, in a future sourcebook, to do the exact opposite. Like having a grenade that is set to detonate immediately, but it continuously gets a wireless signal saying, dont detonate yet. Using a jammer in that case would be very unhealthy, if you are close enough that is.

I've heard of explosives like this being used by the IRA (though it was a conversation at uni, so I'm not positive about how reliable it might have been), though the mechanism isn't that complicated. It's pretty much the same as the principle on an egg timer (and any explosives that might be linked to such), where one circuit acts as a safety and when a battery or radio signal would stop sending current through that circuit it would then detonate.

So has it been made official somewhere that the noise reduction frommultiple datajacks is cumulative?

I could see how multiple jammers might provide diminishing marginal returns, but I don't logically see how multiple data jacks would reduce noise. You're still going through the same security systems, bandwidth, and other problems. Oh well.

[Michael Chandra]

The only weakness mentioned is that it's a lot of gear that can be hacked. Since their defenses are all equal and they're no doubt slaved, however, it hardly matters.