[09:35] <daftykins> good morning gang
[10:05] <zxmpi> o/
[10:11] <daftykins> gotta take another stab at this misbehaving new wifi setup at a clients today
[10:11] <daftykins> so weird, every other one has been perfect... but their home seems cursed
[10:11] <daftykins> weirder still, there are 3 access points at theirs, 2 in the main house and one in a separate home office building - that latter one is also fine
[10:12] <zxmpi> interference from some other nearby network?
[10:12] <daftykins> nah, ruled that out early
[10:15] <zxmpi> lead paint on the walls?
[10:15] <daftykins> :D
[10:15] <zxmpi> really old buildings could have it.
[10:16] <zxmpi> located on top of granite. a real radio mucker upper
[10:18] <daftykins> well i had him stick cat6 in and APs in the main rooms, so you can have line of sight through the open air of the room on both bands, yet somehow it's still misbehaving
[10:18] <daftykins> really weird one
[10:21] <zxmpi> previous owner didn't put in anti wifi wallpaper? :-P
[10:21] <daftykins> hehe
[10:22] <daftykins> guy did say there's a lot of steel in his roof, to support the large open area, it did seem to cause weird quirks with their old setup
[10:23] <daftykins> it did last a few days too, worked great on the install day :D
[10:26] <zxmpi> steel will do it. have a large copper tank between my pc and wifi ap that likes to make reception funn
[10:38] <daftykins> ah well, will have to see if i can work it out 
[10:38] <daftykins> best hop on my finest 2-wheeled steed and venture out :) ttfn \o
[10:44] <zxmpi> cycle safe
[14:22] <daftykins> well that was jammy, i arrived just as a telco engineer was there to investigate the phone line quality woes, he ran a new cable from the pole and sorted some wiring out there, so they now have 32 Mb down instead of 16-20 before \o/
[14:23] <daftykins> i had limited time in the house as the daughter wanted to leave before 3pm, so i tinkered around with the Ubiquiti APs and even went nuclear to reset them, nothing like last minute drastic changes when you have to get out the door, putting the pressure on
[14:23] <daftykins> eventually got them to give about 5-9 Mb but it's still terrible, i just don't get it 
[14:26] <zxmpi> sounds weird
[14:26] <daftykins> mmm it really is, never seen anything like it
[14:27] <daftykins> reminds me of that story in the news a bit ago about that small town where some old boy was turning on some ancient TV and ruining the entire region's broadband services
[14:28] <zxmpi> really dumb ideas. have you tried killing the power to everything else in the house in case a wonky microwave or fridge is interferring?
[14:29] <zxmpi> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180
[14:29] <daftykins> that'll definitely be on the list once i can attend and they're home (they were offshore on a smaller island today and just relaying news by text), i did at least change the password at first and boot every other device off, made no difference though
[14:30] <zxmpi> once had a pc that would corrupt every weekend as that's when the weekend security would plonk the radio transmitter on top of the pc to leave space on the desk for their feet
[14:31] <daftykins> :D
[14:31] <zxmpi> or a pc that would die within 2-3 days of installation as the shop location had an ice cream freezer 6 inches away from the pc. the motor magnet would write gibberish all over the disk when it was piii when i put in a pii it worked fine
[14:32] <zxmpi> you have no idea how many weeks it took to detect these problems
[14:32] <daftykins> that's dedication!
[14:33] <zxmpi> i was not going to be beaten by a pc that would arrive back every monday corrupt
[14:34] <zxmpi> did once take about 9 months to fix a pc i called rip van winkle. it would just randomly power off. hp replaced every part
[14:34] <daftykins> reminds me, i was up at wealthy client HQ and spotted that he's making the same mistakes with his silly desk design as with the old setup
[14:34] <daftykins> including the chassis? :D
[14:35] <zxmpi> eventually they replaced the case. and problem went away. can only surmise that there was a short connecting the motherboard and case somewhere we never found
[14:36] <zxmpi> but had to replace the ram, cpu, hard disk, power supply, motherboard over a series of hp visits. took forever on hold
[14:36] <daftykins> eek
[14:37] <daftykins> yeah can't very well do a naked desk build at a client's premises, hehe
[14:37] <zxmpi> oh and replaced the floppy drive AND dvd drive too
[14:37] <zxmpi> i think by that stage they were just giving us a new pc piece by piece :-)
[14:37] <daftykins> xD
[14:37] <daftykins> paying by installments
[14:38] <zxmpi> and of course by the time the pc was fit to be deplpoyed it had only 2-3 months of warranty left