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Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” - Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots
Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots.
Reuters reports that Google's first self-designed office building has "been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter." At launch, Google's VP of Real Estate & Workplace Services, David Radcliffe, said the site"marks the first time we developed one of our own major campuses, and the process gave us the chance to rethink the very idea of an office." All those peaks and parabolic ceiling sections apparently aren't great for Wi-Fi propagation, with the Reuters report saying that the roof "swallows broadband like the Bermuda Triangle."
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