• Toes♀@ani.social
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    1 year ago

    Tbf this is the universes way of punishing you for using your computer and console on wifi

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      1 year ago

      i mean this isn’t really a networking thing, it’s just waves being blocked or reflected such that different areas have different coverage.

      it’s like trying to read an optician’s letter poster in a house made of glass of varying opacity.

  • lazylion_ca@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    This will seem counterintuitive, but if this is your actual layout, move your wireless AP to either where the bed is or where the xbox is, assuming there’s power and wiring in either spot for it.

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    1 year ago

    Dude am typing this on my neighbors wifi XD. Btw they left the 5ghz band public so have been using it for the past 1 year or so. Lol its quite fast too!

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I’ve been doing that for 6 years when I didn’t have internet connection. I was 8 when I got a first smart device, Android tablet. One of the first things I tried was connecting to Wi-Fi of all neighbors. 2 of them had the ultra-secure password “12345678”. I remember the first website I visited was Wikipedia.
      However, I have tried to not spend too much data. I only watched videos in low quality (240p) and browsed the web. For downloading large files (which I considered anything above 50MB at the time) I’ve used public networks. Usually at the bus station or a nearby pub.
      Sometime later I got access to even more Wi-Fi networks using the convenient “WPS WPA Tester” app. Like a third of all networks used one of the default PINs.