Comment by d--b
6 years ago
Reminds me of my wife's macbook air wifi that was always spotty when she was using it, and always got back to normal when I used it. She thought I had some kind of magic engineer's touch.
After much thinking, we realized that when she was using the laptop in her bed, she would put it on her lap with her legs bent, so that the computer was sitting at a 45 degree angle wrt to the floor, while I would put the computer flat on my chest. This angle made the wifi antenna much less performant.
Humans are basically bags of mostly water, and water is not god to radio signals. Have seen the exact same problem in rooms that are far away from the router. Massive difference if any of my body parts is in the way of the signal
Wifi is weird sometimes. I once had to help my nephew with his network. He had 2 adjacent rooms, but with half a meter concrete inbetween. Needless to say the signal would not penetrate from one room to the other, no matter how close we moved the router and laptop to each other in their respective rooms. But moving the router and laptop back would make it work all of a sudden. Turned out, moving them back would position them in front of the windows, and the signal would then go out of the window and bounce of the neighbouring building to the other room's window.
Did she change her posture or did you get a wifi dongle?