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Cables are so that you don't lag in the middle of an important boss encounter at work or play when someone turns on the microwave

bornfreddy 4y ago
Off topic, but if your microwave does that, it is time to either fix or retire it.
- ornornor 4y ago
  Why? Do you mean because it leaks microwaves? I believe that’s an urban legend as you’d notice very quickly. Microwaves always kill wifi for me if they’re in the path between device and AP.
  - bagels 4y ago
    What's an urban legend? That your kitchen microwave leaks rf? I'd be surprised if any of them somehow didn't. It takes a tremendous effort to stop all rf leaks in a device.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Having been around a few MR scanners with RF artifact issues, I agree. Light bulbs with tiny bits of filament in the bulb, holes drilled in the cage by fire safety morons, faulty doors etc.
  - myself248 4y ago
    This happened to a coworker of mine. He was having sporadic wifi trouble, always in the evening but not every evening. Plugging in wired would always solve it, so it was definitely a wireless problem. I handed him one of my old Ubiquiti M-series APs, the ones with the spectrum analyzer function built in. Showed him how to use it on his laptop, how to turn in a circle and estimate the azimuth of the source, etc. He went home that evening and as soon as his connection dropped, he fired up the analyzer. Very quickly localized the source to the driveway side of the house.... to the neighbor's kitchen. At that point he called me for advice, and I said to knock on the neighbor's door, because this is really unsafe. He put me on speakerphone and I was able to tell them what we found, and they cut me off, saying they knew the door seal was damaged -- it got torn a few weeks prior when someone caught something in the door -- they just had no idea it was a big deal. (It's normal to feel a warm draft near the corner of the unit since the fan exhaust blows out down there, so the warm-sunshine feeling wasn't distinct enough to alarm anyone.) They replaced the microwave the next day and the problem went away.
- dekhn 4y ago
  No, it means you should move out of 2.4GHz for wifi.
- EvanAnderson 4y ago
  Years ago I had a Customer who complained that the Wi-Fi in their conference room “always” failed during a midday meeting. The conference room was right across from a break room w/ a microwave. Sure enough, employees heating food correlated with the outages.

bornfreddy 4y ago

Off topic, but if your microwave does that, it is time to either fix or retire it.

ornornor 4y ago
Why? Do you mean because it leaks microwaves? I believe that’s an urban legend as you’d notice very quickly. Microwaves always kill wifi for me if they’re in the path between device and AP.
- bagels 4y ago
  What's an urban legend? That your kitchen microwave leaks rf? I'd be surprised if any of them somehow didn't. It takes a tremendous effort to stop all rf leaks in a device.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Having been around a few MR scanners with RF artifact issues, I agree. Light bulbs with tiny bits of filament in the bulb, holes drilled in the cage by fire safety morons, faulty doors etc.
- myself248 4y ago
  This happened to a coworker of mine. He was having sporadic wifi trouble, always in the evening but not every evening. Plugging in wired would always solve it, so it was definitely a wireless problem. I handed him one of my old Ubiquiti M-series APs, the ones with the spectrum analyzer function built in. Showed him how to use it on his laptop, how to turn in a circle and estimate the azimuth of the source, etc. He went home that evening and as soon as his connection dropped, he fired up the analyzer. Very quickly localized the source to the driveway side of the house.... to the neighbor's kitchen. At that point he called me for advice, and I said to knock on the neighbor's door, because this is really unsafe. He put me on speakerphone and I was able to tell them what we found, and they cut me off, saying they knew the door seal was damaged -- it got torn a few weeks prior when someone caught something in the door -- they just had no idea it was a big deal. (It's normal to feel a warm draft near the corner of the unit since the fan exhaust blows out down there, so the warm-sunshine feeling wasn't distinct enough to alarm anyone.) They replaced the microwave the next day and the problem went away.
dekhn 4y ago
No, it means you should move out of 2.4GHz for wifi.
EvanAnderson 4y ago
Years ago I had a Customer who complained that the Wi-Fi in their conference room “always” failed during a midday meeting. The conference room was right across from a break room w/ a microwave. Sure enough, employees heating food correlated with the outages.