Microwave kills my Internet

Nitefly · 17 Apr 2012 at 20:24

Cheers for the info guys, I'll see what I can do

Also, I'm not slow cooking porridge, barely any difference, but I do my eggs in a pan... happy?

paddy · 17 Apr 2012 at 20:42

Instantly thought of this:

Put your microwave in a faraday cage

Tom0 · 17 Apr 2012 at 20:47

Load what you want to read, then put the microwave on as you read it?

???

smit101 · 17 Apr 2012 at 20:53

godinman said:
Whilst in general you are correct, you have chosen the two foods which are impossible to tell if they were cooked in a microwave or not.

You must be that bloke who once licked the White Cliffs Of Dover and then said " ah Cheese!

PermaBanned · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:08

Cover the inside of your microwave with aluminium foil.

This may not be a good idea.

Dunks · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:13

PermaBanned said:
Cover the inside of your microwave with aluminium foil.

This may not be a good idea.

Seems legit

DJMK4 · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:22

REIN issue, get calls from customers which sometime are REIN. Pain in the behind

EDIT just noticed you said wifi

I would borrow a mates microwave or find cheap ( but not nasty) one

bitslice · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:54

Nitefly said:
There are few things more annoying in life than waiting for porridge and having to read something not online.

Was saying exactly this the other day, I feel your pain bro.

I'm sure I tried to get my iPad 1 running on 5Ghz but no joy.
I'm hoping that iPad 4 will have a network socket to cater for this modern day plague.

I wonder if overclocking the microwave to 5Ghz instead would fix it?
Should cook faster too.

I'll give DARPA a call in the morning, see if they are working on death rays or anything suitable.

MagicBoy · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:06

The iPad works on 5Ghz. iPhones however do not.

Castiel · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:06

Move the microwave.....

King Damager · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:07

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01glqs8/Bang_Goes_the_Theory_Series_6_Episode_5/

Watch this and stop asking silly questions

kd

<Dubz> · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:19

Ps3's don't work on 5Ghz either.

Or at least my original 60gb version doesn't.

LordSplodge · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:20

MagicBoy said:
The iPad works on 5Ghz. iPhones however do not.

Dual band router. Keep all the slower 802.11g on its own network. Run everything else at a less crowded, microwave free 5Ghz.

That's what I do.

"andy" · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:22

smit101 said:
In your opinion maybe! Microwaved Scrambled eggs to me are disgusting, the result compared to cooking them conventionally is night and day imo.

i prefer the microwaved version

i also prefer microwaved beans and microwaved porridge

not only do i like the taste but it also takes less time and makes less mess

King Damager · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:44

LordSplodge said:
Dual band router. Keep all the slower 802.11g on its own network. Run everything else at a less crowded, microwave free 5Ghz.

That's what I do.

Yeah, I do the same now, although tend to find 5 ghz is slightly weaker.

kd

daz87uk · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:13

get a new microwave, if its old they can leak microwaves when the door hinges drop. And porridge is soooo much nicer on the hob

MagicBoy · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:15

I'm running a second router as a 5Ghz AP. Not allowed to replace the main router as I'm with Sky, so combined it works well.

daz87uk · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:22

you can get the password for your sky router, my friend did it. You go to this website "google" and you can unlock the password by entering the mac and serial of the router or something like that. I dont know what site it was but its doable anyways and now he uses a different router.

MagicBoy · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:51

Yes, I know. I might have previously tried it, then again I might not have.

T&Cs say I can't, so I won't.

If only I had a £1 for every time I mention Sky and someone immediately suggest I should chuck away their router.

The Halk · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:53

I read up on it, but decided not to. Sky are coming out with fibre soon so I'll see what they give me for that. I run a gigabit switch in addition to the router because it's only 100megabits, and the wifis are poor on it too...

I've read Sky people say that it's a disclaimer type thing. They don't want to support anything but their own equipment, they're not bothered if you use something else as long as you don't bother them with questions.