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Had a customer swear his router was "possessed" and I almost believed him till I checked the power strip
So I'm at this guy's house over on Maple Street last Thursday, and he's going on about how his wifi drops every night around 9pm like clockwork, and he actually used the word "haunted." I'm sitting there thinking great, another guy who thinks his router has feelings, but I humored him and started poking around. Turns out his kid's gaming PC and his space heater are on the same $12 power strip as the router, and the kid games till 9 every night. The strip was overloaded and the router was browning out when the heater kicked on. I swapped the strip for a $25 surge protector, moved the heater to its own outlet, and the "haunting" stopped. He looked at me like I'd performed an exorcism, and honestly I felt a little like I had. How many of you have had a job like that where the fix was so dumb simple you almost felt bad charging for it?
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