[AccessD] A sad tale of wifi hotspot interference

[John Colby]

Because we are trained to think about such things, we know that bottlenecks
are often just 'weak links'.  It may be a slow disk, or not enough memory
or cores, or it may be a slow internet connection.  My situation is
admittedly different because I so often have to use my phone's wifi hotspot
to access the internet.  So *for me* the weak link for the internet is
anything that uses my internet indiscriminately.  TBH I never even noticed
this when I was at home.  In fact the thing that drew my attention to it
was the throttling once my allotment was used up.  Suddenly internet access
was painfully slow.  This whole discussion was focused around "where is my
data going".

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 12:28 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well it will depend on what has to be done when the event runs.  I'm sure
> often it just pings a server, asks 'what is the current version' kind of
> thing.  If the version matched then nothing more happens.  But what happens
> if there is a new version and it is 500 mbytes?  You can imagine that the
> answers aren't simple.  In the first instance, you may not even notice.
> But in the second instance it could cause some delay.  Worse though is that
> there may be dozens happening.
>
> And obviously, it may work to just disable the thing but what if there is
> no other task for that app?  Then there is no update ever.  A better
> strategy might be to schedule it for at least once a week (or day) ect.  At
> least then an update would occur occasionally.  I personally looked at each
> app and decided how often I used it, and often changed the task to a
> different (longer) interval.
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 12:16 PM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hadn't really considered any of this, so I did check and disabled all of
>> the "log on" updates. Thanks John. I don't know that it'll improve
>> performance enough that I'll notice, but I thought I'd try.
>>
>> Susan H.
>>
>>
>> John,
>> Just to say I agree with Susan. You have identified an issue that affects
>> you personally; that you as a technical person was unaware of; and that
>> your
>> investigation is identifying remedial action(s). I think an article
>> shedding
>> some light on the issue and corrective measures  could/would be a benefit
>> to
>> many. It certainly would raise awareness.
>> Jack
>>
>>
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