• too_high_for_this
    1195·
    2 years ago

    There’s actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    432·
    2 years ago

    Who uses their phone data at home?

    I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still…

    • BritishJ
      8·
      2 years ago

      Lots of countries only have mobile data to homes. Think African countries, India, Pakistan, then you’ve got Vietnam etc, with villages on rivers.

      • RavenFellBlade@startrek.website
        7·
        2 years ago

        Dude… try rural Illinois. The only internet I can get faster than 3mbps is cellular hotspot, and that’s supposed to be 5G but is usually actually 4G out here. That’s it. I can get dial-up, DSL, cable that is somehow slower than DSL and constantly disconnects, or hotspot from AT&T.

        America is far from the best example of decent internet access if you live more than a few miles from a major urban hub. In fact, in rural areas, your options are not only stupidly limited, but also criminally expensive. For land-based internet at 3mbps where I live costs $6 more per month than my sister-in-law’s GB Fiber 20 miles away, and has data caps to boot. It’s insane.

        • UsernameIsTooLon
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yea Illinois internet disparity is awful. ISP prices suck and it’s usually either Comcast, AT&T, or no Internet.

          Mobile coverage only gets better the closer you get to Chicago, but in the middle of Chicago it’s hit or miss and there are random dead zones everywhere in the city.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Big parts of Europe has. I pay about €17 for unlimited 5G.

      I have wifi at home of course but I still mostly use cellular cus it’s faster lol

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      40·
      2 years ago

      Would be funny if they’d built a Faraday cage around the bathroom to stop people sitting on the toilet on their phones for ages

      • kadu
        8·
        2 years ago

        You can’t stop me, I have WarioWare on my GBA emulator on my phone!

      • 567PrimeMover@kbin.social
        7·
        2 years ago

        That plus those seats designed to put strain on your legs would be a 0/10 pooping experience. The only way I could think to make it worse is if you could find a way to send an all-hands message in Slack: “567primemover has been on the toilet for more than 7 minutes. Send him a word of encouragement!”

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        2 years ago

        Hasn’t that been done before? Maybe not Faraday cages but jammers or something, I swear I remember something like that.

  • gibmiser
    301·
    2 years ago

    The springs in your bed are causing interference. Get a foam mattress.

    Source: Me just making shit up.

  • WereCat
    9·
    2 years ago

    Lol, I had the same experience with WiFi at a hotel I was in 2d ago.

    • 567PrimeMover@kbin.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      And this meme can be easily updated by putting one single “5G” next to the left-hand leg of the bedframe and nowhere else

  • rainynight65@feddit.de
    6·
    2 years ago

    For me it’s the opposite. I don’t get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there’s not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.