I Have Zero Tolerance for Terrible Internet 😤
And I know I’m not alone.
A couple of days ago, I was following a workout video when it suddenly started buffering(the spinning circle of doom😂).
I was mid-squat, staring at the frozen instructor and for a moment, I wasn’t sure whether to pause my workout mode on my wristwatch or just keep exercising.
And that’s the thing about bad internet
How does the internet even work?
Whenever you want to do something online like watch a YouTube video, your phone converts your action(like clicking) into data and sends it as radio waves to the nearest cell tower owned by your network provider.
From there:
- The cell tower sends your data through the network to its destination (YouTube’s servers).
- The server processes the request and sends back the video you want to watch.
- That response travels back through the network, gets converted into radio waves again, and reaches your phone.
- It plays on your screen
All of this typically happens in milliseconds.
But when it’s raining, that process takes longer and that’s because raindrops interfere with the radio waves.