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QoS?
Does sound like a QoS thing, but I would think QoS still applies over WiFi so I'm not sure
The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
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Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
#112This makes for a good story, but if in fact a part of their wifi setup was outdoors, wouldn't that be the first place you start checking?
Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
#113This makes for a good story, but if in fact a part of their wifi setup was outdoors, wouldn't that be the first place you start checking?
Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
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Similarly, if you have one of those office chairs with a pneumatic shock, dropping down hard on the chair may induce an electromagnetic or ESD pulse that shocks the monitor. There’s a video on YouTube about this somewhere and we were able to confirm their findings.
I have a Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor and it’s so sensitive to EMFs, it’ll blink off for a moment when I take my jumper off.
Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
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Does sound like a QoS thing, but I would think QoS still applies over WiFi so I'm not sure
Good guess! I did enable some QoS algorithm in openwrt so it's certainly possible. But yeah it doesn't make sense that wifi traffic was non-impacting. But it's something I didn't try turning off.
Re: The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
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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. When I took a look at it, it turned out that his (proprietary) wireless USB adapter for the mouse was very close to the band of the noise of the microwave. The microwave was also not properly grounded and shared a circuit breaker with his room, as apparently the kitchen was formerly lar…
Mysterious radio astronomy signals turned out to be the breakroom microwave: Sadly, it's never aliens https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/its-the-microwave-h...