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The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by bonzini »

jvm___ wrote: post #34
joecool1029 wrote: post #31

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> A friend told me once that his mouse stops working when someone is using the microwave. His room was on the backside of the kitchen. I had to disable a 2.4ghz access point a couple years ago because a bathroom had a passive IR detector for the light switch that would never let the light shutoff. Because detecting IR is a pretty weak signal, I guess these switches amplify it. The issue is the circuit also acts as a…

If you strum an electric guitar and let the hertz of the string fall through the range of AM radio the amp will briefly pickup AM radio stations. Not that you can decipher anything but you recognize voices as it travels past the station.

How so? A guitar doesn't go past a few kHz (the highest string is IIRC 660 Hz, and the top fret is 660*4) and AM long wave radio—which is almost dead—starts around 120 kHz.

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by RajT88 »

VorpalWay wrote: post #76
eptcyka wrote: post #62

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No, that is why passwords are alphanumerical, keep your #€{*\$<€$<¥]+]!,’ to yourself.

On other layouts that isn't enough. For example French keyboards are AZERTY, not QWERTY. and here in Sweden we have å, ä and ö next to the (tall) enter key, instead of the symbols US and UK have. (Side note: those are not a and o with diacretics, they are entirely separate letters in the alphabets of the Nordic countries, with entirely different sounds.)

Related, a friend of mine uses a long list of heavy metal band names as one of his unit tests for strings. Says it catches a lot of weird encoding bugs.

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by embedding-shape »

mnahkies wrote: post #88
joncrocks wrote: post #60

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It's worth noting that sometimes (incorrect) keyboard maps can get in the way. If it's a key that you may not often type and one that is often transposed between regions, the fact that the entered char is not shown can lead to frustration. e.g. " and @ are in different positions in UK vs. US keyboards. So user thinks they are typing @, but " goes into the box.

One of the more annoying things I've found moving country is the unavailability of keyboards / laptops with the layout I grew up with. I find it especially annoying as the country I'm from uses a US layout which I naively assumed would be easily available everywhere (and it is available but not without a long delivery and a premium price) Side note: helping my French housemate with his uni assignments was an experien…

Meh, takes you like some days to get used to another layout being visible on the keys, while your OS (and brain) actually using another layout.

I've used US keyboard layout since I started programming (my first mentor essentially forced me to switch to it, he was right about it being easier), but throughout the years been using Swedish, Norwegian, British, Spanish and French physical keyboards, never cleanly mapped to the actual layout I've used on the OS, and never been an issue.

The last part though, is a real one, trying to pair program with Spanish programmers always have at least one moment of holding Shift and sliding the finger across all numbers to see where that specific symbol actually is.

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by dnmc »

kshacker wrote: post #41
dnmc wrote: post #35

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Here's another for your collection. - Putting the car in reverse sets off the neighbor's home security system. https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/7k12fs/neighbors_hous...

Did this get solved? I think I read all the comments from OP but saw no confirmation as to what happened.

I don't think the OP ever returned with a conclusive answer, but I'm somewhat convinced by the commenters that it was either a low-frequency engine sound rattling the neighbor's windows or something to do with the car's rear-cross sensor.

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by mlmonkey »

vghaisas wrote: post #13

I've collected a list of fun stories of this form and post them when this comes up: - Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt - Can't log in when standing up: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p... - OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

What about the dog who barked before the (landline) phone started ringing?

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by major505 »

elzbardico wrote: post #78
major505 wrote: post #67

Wifi routers are little magic devices that work only when they want. I talked before here, but I had a Dell Vostro notebook that everytime it connected with my router using windows it would just kill the entire home wifi. It was a TP-Link mesh network. The only thing that would bring the thing up was to reboot every single router in the network and not connect that notebook. I tried update my routers, tried to update…

A divorce is a quite radical solution for a WiFi problem. But I am happy it worked.

Anything for a fast internet connection.

Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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Post by lkbm »

vghaisas wrote: post #13

I've collected a list of fun stories of this form and post them when this comes up: - Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt - Can't log in when standing up: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p... - OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

In addition to the others people have mentioned, I'd add "Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain"[0]

[0] https://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/

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