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minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 month agoI dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi’s down when it’s actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down. People at my work have said this even though they’re using docks plugged with Cat 5.
minus-squareflorge@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoProbably because ISPs like to fob you off with suggestions of poor wifi rather than address the actual internet issue you contact them about.
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoNon-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet. So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoCat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn’t just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren’t just taking a couple minutes to load?
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYeah, e. Just didn’t bother with the variance. Though, could even be Cat6 for all I know, never looked. Almost just said Cat but figured that may confuse people. Our engineers keeping the network purring like a kitty.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoProbably should have just said “Ethernet”
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat’s another thing entirely. I don’t know if alive people can even use it.
I dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi’s down when it’s actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down.
People at my work have said this even though they’re using docks plugged with Cat 5.
Probably because ISPs like to fob you off with suggestions of poor wifi rather than address the actual internet issue you contact them about.
Non-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.
So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.
Cat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn’t just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren’t just taking a couple minutes to load?
Yeah, e. Just didn’t bother with the variance. Though, could even be Cat6 for all I know, never looked.
Almost just said Cat but figured that may confuse people. Our engineers keeping the network purring like a kitty.
Probably should have just said “Ethernet”
That’s another thing entirely. I don’t know if alive people can even use it.