TIL my 'portable office' was just a fancy way to work from a wifi dead zone

I set up shop in a cute little cafe in Medellin last month, thinking I'd crush a full day of work. The coffee was great, the vibe was chill, but my internet kept dropping every 5 minutes. I spent 45 minutes moving between tables, standing by the bathroom, and even waving my laptop out the window like an idiot. Turns out the router was in the back storage room and all that tile killed the signal. I finally just gave up and went to a coworking space down the street that had solid connections. Has anyone else spent way too long trying to force a bad spot to work when you should have just moved?

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elizabeth90014d ago

my friend literally stood on a chair holding her laptop up like the Statue of Liberty trying to get a signal in a hotel lobby.

the_patricia14d ago

The Statue of Liberty pose is a Bold new approach to hotel wifi, I guess. Honestly at this point I'd just ask the front desk for an ethernet cable or something, but I guess that's too logical. Hope her arms didn't give out before she got that one bar of signal.