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AC vs Wireless signal

I noticed a weird thing today.
There’s a corelation between my internet wireless connection and the AC in my room.

This is at the guesthouse I’ve been staying for the last week or so, and will be staying for the next few months. One thing you should know about my wireless, is that I’m leeching internet off a router placed 2 floors above mine. Legally of course. And because the one on my floor has temporarily been down for the last week or so.

When the temperature in my room drops below 20 degrees celcius, my wireless stops working. And I’ve seen this happen more than a few times. Makes me wonder what it might be.

My wireless card doesn’t work well when it’s cold? The wireless signal drops when humidity in my room is controlled? The AC draws too much power off the source when I switch it on, and the router doesn’t get enough power to generate a stronger signal than it used to? Or maybe they’ve had some history (I’d like to think one dumped the other, and they aren’t on talking terms since), so they don’t like to function in sync.

Most likely I’m seeing too much into it, and I like to believe everything is connected. I’m sure a lot of things in this world are connected in very unobvious, un-scientifically provable ways right now, but maybe drawing a connection between my AC and the wireless router is pushing it too much.

Now let me switch off the AC, so I could post this on the Internet.

Comments 13

  1. Abhishek wrote:

    You’re experiencing a classic case of this type of problems.

    Posted 11 Oct 2009 at 11:09 pm
  2. Aakanksha wrote:

    You think too much.

    Posted 11 Oct 2009 at 11:33 pm
  3. Sailusha wrote:

    please tell us more about these other ‘connected’ things in the universe ;)
    good to see a (semi)personal post after long…

    Posted 12 Oct 2009 at 11:52 am
  4. Sanketh wrote:

    When the temp’s below 20, n u switch off the AC, does the wireless start workin right away or does it work only after the room temp’s gone above 20?

    Posted 12 Oct 2009 at 7:43 pm
  5. Sergio Baiao wrote:

    Wireless networking suffer from a lot of problems, and of them is adverse weather conditions, in other words, a very cold room, specially if you have plants inside it, because they absolve wireless signals. Also, microwaves and cordless phones can interfere on a wireless network, very very badly. Try moving the wireless router around and if possible, changing the router’s communication channel. By the way, can you spare an invitation to the new orkut? ;)

    Best Regards from Brazil

    Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 10:39 pm
  6. Natraj.Kanoor wrote:

    same thing happend with my nokia e60 phone… never operate a menu button

    Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 11:33 pm
  7. Siddharth wrote:

    hmm .. i need to go back to my Thermodynamic classes ..eeh :S

    Posted 05 Nov 2009 at 11:48 am
  8. nagarjuna wrote:

    very funny……..how crazy technology…!!!!!
    lol… [:P]

    Posted 05 Nov 2009 at 1:57 pm
  9. Sai Mukund Sagar wrote:

    You have a keen observation :D

    Posted 05 Nov 2009 at 5:26 pm
  10. Pranav Ainavolu wrote:

    Really funny…
    Nice perspective and good observation!

    Posted 08 Nov 2009 at 11:58 pm
  11. Jayanta Deka wrote:

    well it keep me guessing..! is it a co-relation or a co-incidence!!! phew…
    happy blogging….

    Posted 24 Nov 2009 at 7:52 pm
  12. praneet jain wrote:

    have u switched off your AC??

    Posted 29 Nov 2009 at 12:44 pm
  13. shuvo wrote:

    i think it might have something to do with the string theory!

    everything is the universe is connected!

    every single thing!

    Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 12:10 am

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