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Pro tip: I finally understood my hotspot struggles after a cafe owner in Chiang Mai pointed at my laptop.

I'd been blaming spotty internet for a year, but he showed me my aluminum MacBook case was blocking half the signal, so now I always face the logo toward the router.
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dylan_rodriguez
Honestly that makes so much sense. I had the same thing happen with my old phone in a metal case, the wifi would just die in my hand. Took me forever to figure out it was basically a tiny Faraday cage.
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blair_lewis85
Actually a full Faraday cage needs a solid metal shell, but those metal cases can still block a lot of signal.
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maryp18
maryp1828d ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my old laptop with the metal lid.
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