Why Stanley Steemer Won't Be Selling Wi-Fi Service Soon
One of the benefits of working from home is that I get the priviledge of letting in whoever I need to work on the house, pretty much whenever I want to. Today's guest at the Wohlgemuth household was Stanley Steemer. We decided to get the carpets cleaned, so went through the normal scheduling and they showed up around 8:15 to get started.
Normally carpet cleaning is a loud, annoying thing where they suck out everything you and your kids have left on the floor for the past few years, and then hit your wallet for couple hundred dollars. This isn't news. What IS news is while I was working, my 802.11b connection died. OK maybe the router rebooted. No, the wired connection is up and fine. OK, reboot the laptop. Nope, still down. The second he went downstairs with his machine, the signal returned, albeit at a "low" strength. When he turned his machine off, signal returned to 100%.
Now who knows what really happened (could have been power, space aliens, who knows), but I just found it weird that their equipment would interfere with 2.4GHz. Next time, I'll take the morning off or at least wire in the laptop.