We had an office in a very old building downtown with no access to fibre. The best internet we could get at the time was a 3G router in the window. Every afternoon at the same time our connection would drop down below 1 Meg and become unusable. Eventually we realised that down the street there was a large school and every afternoon when classes were over, hundreds of young people would turn in their phones and saturate our cell.
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
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Re: The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
#232This is a bit ridiculous. How can you know that you have a ling of sight element to you network and not check that as the very first thing when you hear about rain effecting the wifi?
It sounds fake, especially as the solution would be to get the original equipment higher, instead of buying new equipment? Also why not lay a cable.
You can't just lay a cable across a public street
Also, if it was roughly 10 years ago then upgrading to N wireless was a good solution anyway. Not only did it solve the problem but it would've given then quicker speeds.
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#233I had a similar experience about shipping pallet being fully loaded fixing server connectivity issues almost two decades ago: https://chir.ag/tech/?49
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for long! Once the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina becomes a member state of the European Union (a process which is seemingly progressing smoothly), it will be part of the European mobile phone 'roaming area' that is regulated as per PE/51/2018/REV/1. End result: your taxi driver's data plan will work whatever the weather :)
Will EU ever allow them in? With the problem of Hungary vetoing a lot (to help Russia) letting B&H in does not look smart. B&H comes with its own bag of problems too.
Of the European countries currently looking to join, Bosnia & Herzegovina will probably be the last one to actually make it. Which is pretty surprising considering that Kosovo has a is-this-actually-a-country dispute within the EU (which also blocks Serbia's accession), and Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine have not-so-minor problems of not being able to control portions of their territory thanks to Russian occupation.
The Russo-Ukrainian war reignited a desire in the EU to actually enlarge towards the Balkans and Eastern Europe. But the countries that haven't joined aren't in great shape (the healthier bits of Yugoslavia joined earlier), and it's not clear to me that any of the current batch countries (especially Bosnia) will be able to join before such desires cool again.
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#235I had a similar experience about shipping pallet being fully loaded fixing server connectivity issues almost two decades ago: https://chir.ag/tech/?49
Oh wow, what a read! Great story, thanks for sharing :)
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#236I feel like this story started off seeming way more mysterious than it actually was because it took so long to get to mentioning the crucial bit (the long distance WiFi bridge).
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man, this is one of my favorite lines of all time: > "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--" > "Geostatisticians..." > "--yes, and she's produced a map showing the radius within which we can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles. There are a number of destinations within that radius that we can't reach, either, or reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius."…
My favorite story kinda of this nature, of an expert as alien intelligence, was Feynmann's calculations about computer architecture of the Connection Machine: https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin... It's a few paragraphs, maybe too much to quote, but the bulk of it starts with: > By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to ou…
I hadn't seen that before, so thanks for posting it. What a great story!
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#238I had a similar experience about shipping pallet being fully loaded fixing server connectivity issues almost two decades ago: https://chir.ag/tech/?49
That must have driven you crazy. The loop bit makes it so counterintuitive since interference from the pallet was actually helpful.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a site with stories like these somewhere, I sadly can't remember the URL any more. I think the one that stuck out to me was the Soviet mainframe computer that would get weird bit flips almost every day, always at the exact same time. Somebody compared what was different about the days it didn't get bit flips on, it turns out those were the days on which a particular train didn't run, the computer was very c…
Perhaps thedailywtf.com?
What was the one for Apple stories...?
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps thedailywtf.com?
What was the one for Apple stories...?