Data coverage

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There's actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
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Who uses their phone data at home?
I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still..
- I would say Germany, but our mobile data is even more overpriced.
  
  Our mobile data is the biggest scam that exists on this earth. A handful of gigabytes for 10s of €s per month.
  The highest IQ people will say "Well it doesn't have to be more than a few gigabytes, you got wifi at home anyways, I barely reach the mobile data limit", well it doesn't have to be 10s of €s for a handful of gigabytes either/anyways.
  And coverage outside has always been between "Barely alright" and "Dogshit non-existent" too, doesn't matter if you're in a city, around a city or on a street between cities, especially on the streets though you're lucky if you can fucking "ping -c 4 google.com" with package loss.
  
  Is there something specific about Germany where people don't use or have WiFi?
  
  Eh, I pay 15 Euro a month for unlimited data at 15 Mbps
  
  Estonia requires Internet to be a good place to live with out it it's not bad and not good
- Lots of countries only have mobile data to homes. Think African countries, India, Pakistan, then you've got Vietnam etc, with villages on rivers.
  
  Dude... try rural Illinois. The only internet I can get faster than 3mbps is cellular hotspot, and that's supposed to be 5G but is usually actually 4G out here. That's it. I can get dial-up, DSL, cable that is somehow slower than DSL and constantly disconnects, or hotspot from AT&T.
  America is far from the best example of decent internet access if you live more than a few miles from a major urban hub. In fact, in rural areas, your options are not only stupidly limited, but also criminally expensive. For land-based internet at 3mbps where I live costs $6 more per month than my sister-in-law's GB Fiber 20 miles away, and has data caps to boot. It's insane.
- Big parts of Europe has. I pay about €17 for unlimited 5G.
  I have wifi at home of course but I still mostly use cellular cus it's faster lol
- My wifi doesn't reach my bedroom. Really should fix it.

The bathroom stall at work gets 0 bars.
- Would be funny if they'd built a Faraday cage around the bathroom to stop people sitting on the toilet on their phones for ages
  
  You can't stop me, I have WarioWare on my GBA emulator on my phone!
  
  That plus those seats designed to put strain on your legs would be a 0/10 pooping experience. The only way I could think to make it worse is if you could find a way to send an all-hands message in Slack: "567primemover has been on the toilet for more than 7 minutes. Send him a word of encouragement!"
  
  Don't give them any fucking ideas
  
  Hasn't that been done before? Maybe not Faraday cages but jammers or something, I swear I remember something like that.
  
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Accurate cause 5g is nowhere to be found
- I can get 5G in small villages and towns even. So I don't know what you're talking about.

You don't have wifi at home?
- i dont...

E, which stands for EDGE, is also "2G".
- It's edgier 2G for an edgier generation.
- Yes, but GPRS is also 2g, but almost half the speed of edge.
  
  How dare you "um, akhtually" me on my "um, akhtually"?!
- Yeah but its faster than just regular 2g. You can load not ridiculously sized images on edge. On 2g? Enjoy your wait.

Lol, I had the same experience with WiFi at a hotel I was in 2d ago.

e = ethernet now

For me it's the opposite. I don't get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there's not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.

Accurate
- And this meme can be easily updated by putting one single "5G" next to the left-hand leg of the bedframe and nowhere else

Wireless carrier wants you to get out of bed and scroll at the goddamn kitchen table
- What, like I'm in a commercial?

Been years since I've seen this meme.

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