• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    4·
    56分前

    Is the Wi-Fi down, or is Internet access down? Because you’re probably gonna need a gerbil instead of that hamster

    • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      2時間前

      Hello I accidentally sacrificed Hamster Pro Max to my regular Pro router. There weren’t any warnings or errors it just took its soul, and now when I turn it on the light flashes red 3 times and for a few seconds I can see the eighth circle of hell where Diviners are forced to walk backwards blinded by their own tears.

      What I want to ask is, can I extend the timer to at least a minute? This super cute witch winked at me, but when I try to ask her out all I hear are screams of the damned and then the connection goes down please help me.

    • einkorn@feddit.org
      5·
      3時間前

      But v1.18.x is higher than v1.2.x? 🤨

      The 18th update of version 1 vs the 2nd update of version 1.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3時間前

        Please search before asking questions.

        Either this is the Hamster pro max v1.2 v18.345 which is different from the Hamster Max v1.0 or the router can’t parse two digit minor versions because it’s too old.

        • einkorn@feddit.org
          2·
          3時間前

          But I demand instant answers to my question regardless of the quality of my writing skills and in total disregard of time of the day?!

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    23·
    5時間前

    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.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      1·
      52分前

      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?

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3時間前

      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.

      • veroxii@aussie.zone
        1·
        3分前

        And in most operating systems the wifi icon turns into some other error icon if there’s no internet. So I can see the confusion.

    • florge@feddit.uk
      10·
      5時間前

      Probably because ISPs like to fob you off with suggestions of poor wifi rather than address the actual internet issue you contact them about.

    • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      3時間前

      If you it’s your neighborhood cat, then it’s probably only cat 1 or cat 2, so it won’t be of much use to you unless you wanna play Zork on your local community college’s mainframe. That might work.

      Back in the day, the fuzzy ones had to sacrifice bandwidth for cuteness.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      5時間前

      First of all, fuck Rogers with a rusty statue of a cactus, and second, fuck them again.

      I don’t understand how a company that big can be that bad at uptime. I moved to Teksavvy years ago and haven’t had any outages since. I refuse to do direct business with any of the big three.