My Go-To Coworking Spot In Chiang Mai Got Renovated And Now The WiFi Drops Every 20 Minutes

I sat down last Tuesday ready to grind out a report and ended up hotspotting from my phone for 3 hours because the new signal blockers they installed for 'aesthetic walls' killed the router connection - has anyone else had a regular workspace suddenly become unusable?

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river_thompson12d ago

I had the exact same thing happen at my usual spot, The Workshop near Nimman. They put in these thick wooden partition walls and the 2.4GHz band just died completely. It took them two weeks to admit the routers were all in dead zones behind the new frames. I even pulled a speed test in three different corners of the room and got nothing but 1.2Mbps on a good day. Ended up switching to a smaller cafe down the soi with no interior design ambitions but a solid connection that actually stays up through lunch rush.

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wyattramirez12d ago

Funny you mention that, because a buddy of mine runs a small coworking space out near the old city. He had this beautiful teak shelving installed all along the back wall, really classed the place up. The next week half his members were complaining they couldn't connect from the far end. Turns out the wood was packed with these old metal brackets and bolts from a previous renovation, and it was basically an antenna killer. He had to run a whole new access point just to cover the last three tables.

wade_dixon12d ago

Thin walls can mess with signal just as bad, guess it's all trial and error.