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minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 hours agoI dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi’s down when it’s actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down. People at my work have said this even though they’re using docks plugged with Cat 5.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 hours agoCat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn’t just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren’t just taking a couple minutes to load?
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 hours agoNon-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet. So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.
I dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi’s down when it’s actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down.
People at my work have said this even though they’re using docks plugged with Cat 5.
Cat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn’t just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren’t just taking a couple minutes to load?
Non-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.
So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.