BenLeMan
@BenLeMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 57 minutes ago:
Again, you point out why “normal” is an iffy notion to begin with. Thank you for elaborating instead of just downvoting. 🙂
Failing to fully utilize the existing antenna diversity options on modern routers/APs might be another common cause that comes to mind.
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 1 hour ago:
Except if you have an ECOVACS cleaning robot which refuses to work with modern 5GHz networks. I actually had to install a Wi-Fi bridge to get around that limitation; thankfully, I still had one lying around. Helped me get a better signal for my phone in the bathroom as well.
But thank you for adding this information. Congestion due to interference from other networks (I guess that’s what you meant) can definitely be a factor as well. I guess that’s the problem with the notion of “normal” that I employed rather carelessly.
Sidenote: the fact that your Wi-Fi still works in those conditions at all instead of shutting down goes back to pioneering research done by actress-cum-scientist Hedy Lamarr during WW2. Amazing woman.
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 4 hours ago:
Sort of a serious answer because I’m bored: You’re thinking of speeding up the air when what you should be thinking about is speeding up the waves. But then your waves are reaching you plenty fast already with latency being in the single digit ms range. Not much of a point in trying to accelerate that, really. You won’t notice anyway.
If you feel like your internet connection via Wi-Fi is slow then the bottleneck is probably not with the Wi-Fi part of your network but the Internet Access Point behind it. Or even further down the line.
Now this is based on the assumption that you are in a fairly typical network environment, i.e. using semi-current hardware with moderate, if any, electromagnetic interference in the area. If you’re living right next to a high voltage transformer station and using a router from 2008 then, yes, you’re going to have Wi-Fi performance issues.
But in most cases, people complaining about “slow Wi-Fi” are actually suffering from Internet connectivity issues.
Think of it this way: If you enjoy your McDonald’s from the local franchise but you can only get 100 burgers per hour from them (of course you need MOAR!) then upgrading your 320hp Camaro to a 400hp Mustang is not going to enable you to pick up appreciably more burgers from the drive through in the same amount of time.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 1 day ago:
They’re really telling on themselves. Scared shitless.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 1 day ago:
Shiiit now I’ve got to take up smoking again. Just when I’ve been clean for 25 years.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
No, rouge is the stuff that ladies put on their cheeks. You mean rogue, as in wildcard, untameable, privateer.
- Comment on Desks 1 week ago:
I thought of the KKK. Thanks for the better quality picture.
- Comment on CEO brains go brrrrr 2 weeks ago:
So fall he shall. Something something humble beginnings, auspicious prospects.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 weeks ago:
No need to be intimidated. Just pick it up in a sale. Definitely a brain teaser but there are spoiler reduced guides out there in case you get stuck. But you should be able to finish the game even without guidance.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
I like them too but I’ve noticed that some games are not updated to the same version as their Steam counterparts.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 weeks ago:
Yes! Return of the Obra Sinn 100%. You can still watch other people play it on YouTube later and have a blast seeing them figure things out.
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
Just a pinch of a fire truck on standby should do the trick.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 weeks ago:
There is no such thing as an “amount of people”. It’s “number of people”. And the question given is basic game theory, just worded to be nasty.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
And a healthy swig of bleach for good measure. Cheers!
- Comment on I want a name for this 4 weeks ago:
Yeah getting out of your car and realizing you have no idea how you got here is spooky.
- Comment on That funny feeling 5 weeks ago:
I was going to suggest banana milk for the extra calcium but sure, you do you. 😉
- Comment on That funny feeling 5 weeks ago:
Bananas should also work. And magnesium, which is easy to supplement.
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 1 month ago:
And downright shallow as well!
- Comment on Absolute Units 1 month ago:
Prevent predation? Seems like the orcas didn’t get the memo.
- Comment on Hmm... 2 months ago:
Right in the qussy.
- Comment on Gender 2 months ago:
It is what it is.
- Comment on I'm going insane 2 months ago:
But you can’t kiss a duck on the lips from the word go. Just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson.
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 2 months ago:
That’s what happens when you forget but keep trying and then make a new post about it.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
You know what doesn’t take effort? Writing stupid list like that for other people to follow.
- Comment on Anon wants more pizza 2 months ago:
No! It’s the females’ fault that men are feeling bad about themselves, didn’t you know?
- Comment on Academic writing 2 months ago:
French scholars are famous for their mastery of obscurantism. That’s what this is called.
- Comment on Anon boots up a game 3 months ago:
Oh, oh, and: the volume setting for background music only applies once you load into a level so you get blasted with loud music while you wait.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 3 months ago:
ITT: Because it would be Image and possibly poisonous.
- Comment on Malk? 3 months ago:
*skellington
- Comment on Anon's gf is unfulfilled 3 months ago:
Woman’s gotta get off those Disney movies.
