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    There’s actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

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    Who uses their phone data at home?

    I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still…

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        Our mobile data is the biggest scam that exists on this earth. A handful of gigabytes for 10s of €s per month.

        The highest IQ people will say “Well it doesn’t have to be more than a few gigabytes, you got wifi at home anyways, I barely reach the mobile data limit”, well it doesn’t have to be 10s of €s for a handful of gigabytes either/anyways.

        And coverage outside has always been between “Barely alright” and “Dogshit non-existent” too, doesn’t matter if you’re in a city, around a city or on a street between cities, especially on the streets though you’re lucky if you can fucking “ping -c 4 google.com” with package loss.

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          For it’s the cheap cheap price of 22.4€/person for 20 GB 5G per person. And that’s just because my father has been a customer for a long time and I’m a second device in his contract now, with 50% off. I also reach the 20 GB limit fairly often, especially when on the go a lot. Because Deutsche Bahn. F them. Not even a working Captive Portal is possible for them, so my Laptop has to connect to my Phones Hotspot. I’m in luck with coverage actually, it’s pretty OK even in my village and all around. It’s just bad in my school.

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        Is there something specific about Germany where people don’t use or have WiFi?

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          Not really, almost everyone has WiFi. However, many only have DSL - with speeds up to 10 Mbps or even lower. And that still for a price that’s way too high. Usually it happens at more remote places, like 10 km away from the nearest city. Only one ISP is available, nobody cares about upgrading the rotting copper cables, or even laying fiber, so the customer just gets what’s available for the price the ISP wants, there are basically no restrictions. We’re very lucky to have Gigabit for 50€/month and soon fiber - and that’s not even certain. A company is laying fiber, they’re basically called ‘German Fiber Optic’. As they only offer static public IPv4s for a premium price however, we didn’t go for it. Rule of thumb is that either other ISPs will do their own cables just as the first one has been finished, so as not to lose customers. As ISP 1 that originally laid fiber could charge any amount for that only cable though, ISP 2 will either bite their cheeks and rent it or actually lay it themselves. From that point on the cable will be cheaper for ISP n>=3, as ISP 1+2 want to get them as a customer. So we just need to wait. Not an option for, as said, remote points, who may not have any acceptable connection but a tower right in their backyard.

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      Lots of countries only have mobile data to homes. Think African countries, India, Pakistan, then you’ve got Vietnam etc, with villages on rivers.

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        Dude… try rural Illinois. The only internet I can get faster than 3mbps is cellular hotspot, and that’s supposed to be 5G but is usually actually 4G out here. That’s it. I can get dial-up, DSL, cable that is somehow slower than DSL and constantly disconnects, or hotspot from AT&T.

        America is far from the best example of decent internet access if you live more than a few miles from a major urban hub. In fact, in rural areas, your options are not only stupidly limited, but also criminally expensive. For land-based internet at 3mbps where I live costs $6 more per month than my sister-in-law’s GB Fiber 20 miles away, and has data caps to boot. It’s insane.

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          Yea Illinois internet disparity is awful. ISP prices suck and it’s usually either Comcast, AT&T, or no Internet.

          Mobile coverage only gets better the closer you get to Chicago, but in the middle of Chicago it’s hit or miss and there are random dead zones everywhere in the city.

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      Big parts of Europe has. I pay about €17 for unlimited 5G.

      I have wifi at home of course but I still mostly use cellular cus it’s faster lol

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      And this meme can be easily updated by putting one single “5G” next to the left-hand leg of the bedframe and nowhere else

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    For me it’s the opposite. I don’t get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there’s not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.