• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Seen that with an elevator running. As soon as the elevator moved, wifi & BT died.

    The problem was that the elevator was older than wifi and BT, so there was no warranty or something they could just call on. I told them to still get it fixed, as the local equivalent of the FCC is known not be be that nice when something is creating problems on the spectrum.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      My neighbor’s poorly shielded microwave would knock out our WiFi. Because microwaves are in the 2.4GHz range, which is also the same range as older WiFi. Except that a microwave operates with several thousand times more power than WiFi, so it essentially acts as a jammer when it’s not shielded well.

      Figuring that out took me fucking ages. I eventually heard her microwave beep through the shared wall, right as my WiFi came back online.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        Ours did that for WiFi. I knew when my wife was warming something in the Microwave, by her complaints about her streaming video dropping