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- Surrey, UK
I recently rearranged my room, right. No big deal, just a cupboard and turned my bed around, shifted the desk slightly. Ever since my internet has been running at a crawl. I have VM's 10mb service, and the highest download speed I saw was about 300kbps. I reset my router/modem, moved the adapter to different USB slots, all the usual stuff but it didn't work.
I phone Virgin to "enquire" about any local problems. They said my area and line was fine and that the problem was at my end. Which of course I chalked up to them passing the buck as their first line couldn't help the problem.
So now I'm here two days later thinking about the environment of my room and how it's different and I realise that the adapter's line of sight to the router downstairs travels straight through the mirror on the front of my cupboard. I open the cupboard door, and hey, internet is back to normal.
I understand that radio is on the EMS the same way that visible light is, but never thought it would reflect so well that I'd actually see a drop-out in strength! A good lesson to have learned, I reckon.
I phone Virgin to "enquire" about any local problems. They said my area and line was fine and that the problem was at my end. Which of course I chalked up to them passing the buck as their first line couldn't help the problem.
So now I'm here two days later thinking about the environment of my room and how it's different and I realise that the adapter's line of sight to the router downstairs travels straight through the mirror on the front of my cupboard. I open the cupboard door, and hey, internet is back to normal.
I understand that radio is on the EMS the same way that visible light is, but never thought it would reflect so well that I'd actually see a drop-out in strength! A good lesson to have learned, I reckon.
