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My family doesn't know that the WiFi AP is not the DECT base. They understand when I tell them, but that's gone after a week. They use the words WiFi (or, as we

My family doesn't know that the WiFi AP is not the DECT base. They understand when I tell them, but that's gone after a week. They use the words WiFi (or, as we say in Germany, WLAN) and "Internet" almost interchangeably. At work, too. "Internet kaputt" can mean anything from "my device is broken" to "our ERP app is not doing the right thing / responding too slow".

warpech 25d ago
That is true everywhere. I think operating systems could do a better job at informing about the health of the internet connection in words the user understands. What seems to be the current bottleneck: Your router does not respond. Turn it off and on. This comes close: https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/breakdown/ https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/breakdown/
MrGilbert 25d ago
You can’t blame them, though. I live in the industry for over 25 years now, and when 5 Ghz wifi got introduced, and started to live alongside 2.4 Ghz with all the different protocols, I was like: "Nah. Screw it." I honestly have no idea what the current hot stuff in terms of wifi is.^^
- avhception 25d ago
  Yeah, I guess I draw the line at the workplace. Some of these "Internet kaputt" cases turned out to be a rejected login to our bespoke ERP website.
lucb1e 24d ago
> They use the words WiFi (or, as we say in Germany, WLAN) and "Internet" almost interchangeably. I was helping our neighbor with WiFi issues. They asked at some point if a "WLAN-Kabel" would solve the issue :) The sad part is that they realized the mistake a minute later, and since I didn't say anything but just answered the question (I understood what they meant, no point correcting the technicality), they assumed that I was just laughing at them behind their back / internally. Turns out once again that tech is as much social as it is technical, and I really struggle with people who think everyone else is hiding something (they vote accordingly, let's say)
- avhception 23d ago
  It really doesn't help that a part of our attention-economy has hopped on the "what (the government/big tech/car company) doesn't want you to know!11" bandwagon and constantly feeds into this notion that there is this great ominous evil cabal working against you.
  - lucb1e 21d ago
    Yeah exactly :/

warpech 25d ago

That is true everywhere. I think operating systems could do a better job at informing about the health of the internet connection in words the user understands. What seems to be the current bottleneck: Your router does not respond. Turn it off and on. This comes close: https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/breakdown/ https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/breakdown/

MrGilbert 25d ago

You can’t blame them, though. I live in the industry for over 25 years now, and when 5 Ghz wifi got introduced, and started to live alongside 2.4 Ghz with all the different protocols, I was like: "Nah. Screw it." I honestly have no idea what the current hot stuff in terms of wifi is.^^

avhception 25d ago
Yeah, I guess I draw the line at the workplace. Some of these "Internet kaputt" cases turned out to be a rejected login to our bespoke ERP website.

lucb1e 24d ago

> They use the words WiFi (or, as we say in Germany, WLAN) and "Internet" almost interchangeably. I was helping our neighbor with WiFi issues. They asked at some point if a "WLAN-Kabel" would solve the issue :) The sad part is that they realized the mistake a minute later, and since I didn't say anything but just answered the question (I understood what they meant, no point correcting the technicality), they assumed that I was just laughing at them behind their back / internally. Turns out once again that tech is as much social as it is technical, and I really struggle with people who think everyone else is hiding something (they vote accordingly, let's say)

avhception 23d ago
It really doesn't help that a part of our attention-economy has hopped on the "what (the government/big tech/car company) doesn't want you to know!11" bandwagon and constantly feeds into this notion that there is this great ominous evil cabal working against you.
- lucb1e 21d ago
  Yeah exactly :/