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Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by xeromal »

This reminds me of when I took my PS5 to my family's house for Christmas vacation. We both have the same SSID because I set up both access points but they changed the password when they forgot it because they're a bunch of bozos.

My PS5 controller refused to connect to my PS5 and I couldn't figure out why. I gave up and after a few days tried again only to realize that the PS5 controller can't connect to the PS5 wirelessly when the wifi was connected but the password was invalid. I still don't know why it was a problem or if it still is a problem but it was a monster to debug. lol

The reason I didn't fix the wifi in the first place was that I didn't have a spare USB C to USB A cable to hardwire my controller and I was playing a singleplayer game. I think it was last of us.

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by Dylan16807 »

bonton89 wrote: post #32
progbits wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, my macbook had unusable wifi when playing music via Bluetooth headphones. Switched to playing from my phone, somehow that worked - probably problem with the BT radio in the laptop since I didn't change wifi channel.

Aren't bluetooth and wifi typically on the same module these days? The worst interference problem I've heard of is how USB 3.0 uses 2.4ghz and therefore can cause problems with devices connected with it.

It causes a big smear of interference but one of the higher regions is inside the 2.4GHz band.

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by tantalor »

I dislike calling this "magical thinking", just because the plausible causal relationship takes a little time to discover, it's not implausible at the outset.

In fact, the causal relationship between rain & wifi is taken as a given by the author:

> If anything, rain makes wireless signal quality worse

It's not too surprising to discover a causal relationship between two things we already know are causally related.

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by barryrandall »

asadhaider wrote: post #33
jordigh wrote: post #15

Let me see if I'm the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, "I cannot send email further than 500 miles" http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html Or the Magic/More Magic switch http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html It's fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.

First thing I thought of too. Anyone know if there a list of more articles similar to these three?

DNS responses sent over UDP are often truncated if the response is too large. This manifests itself as "machine unreachable if name > x characters" sort of errors when you have really long FQDNs.

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by Tomte »

asadhaider wrote: post #33
jordigh wrote: post #15

Let me see if I'm the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, "I cannot send email further than 500 miles" http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html Or the Magic/More Magic switch http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html It's fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.

First thing I thought of too. Anyone know if there a list of more articles similar to these three?

My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by mywacaday »

I know of a case in the Caribbean where where a line of sight connection between two buildings of a bank was being interrupted by a tree from a competitor bank. They asked the competitor would they mind cutting the tree and the answer was sure for the small fee of 1 million, Third hand info but I did hear from a network guy I worked with.

Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

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Post by superb_dev »

tantalor wrote: post #43

I dislike calling this "magical thinking", just because the plausible causal relationship takes a little time to discover, it's not implausible at the outset. In fact, the causal relationship between rain & wifi is taken as a given by the author: > If anything, rain makes wireless signal quality worse It's not too surprising to discover a causal relationship between two things we already know are causally related.

You don't think it's unusual to find a positive correlation where there is usually a negative correlation?
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