Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

"Make do" with ethernet? Charlie Brown, ethernet is the superior networking interface. People "make do" with wifi.

I guess they’ll have to cancel their building like they cancel everything else they do.

This is why Wi-Fi is annoying, I'll take a wired connection over Wi-Fi any day.

The moral is – Wi-fi intensity study should be part of modern architecture.

I'm all for 👍 architecture. Just consider Wi-fi before building it.

For this structure, I wonder if the best solution is – Just add more mesh points. Not elegant but what if there's no better way?

Googlers assigned to the building are making do with Ethernet cables,

If I'm working at a desk, then I'd definitely rather have a cable than rely on wireless, regardless of the roof structure.

lmao sounds like they just need to all stand right at the spot where the parabolas of the ceiling have a focal point.

Reminder: this is the company that holds a monopoly on the internet and dictates web standards.

Funny how there's a lot of wired vs wireless hate in the comments, can't really pin down the reason. Generational?

Wired will always be more stable and faster, whereas wireless is more ubiquitous. If you work at a fixed position, prefer wired. If wired is unavailable, well, you'll have to make do with wireless. USB-C dongles and docking stations are a thing, so the laptop doesn't have it argument doesn't hold.

I bet there is a strong WiFi spot a few feet above the building.

I actually rather prefer ethernet. Much more stable.

Why do all thing need to look like these soulless glass metal and concrete blobs. Like bruh, why not build something cool lime a Roman Temple, European Castle, Viking Longhouse, Ancient Chinese Pagoda ...

I’ll take access point bombing for 1000 Alex. I see several in wall and wall-mounted varieties in the immediate future of that place… 😂

The solution is more Unifi hotspots

Just make every ceiling tile and outlet have one and you'll have all the coverage you will ever need

Totally fits in the google idiotism that we got used to since few years. The enshittification started when that pichai become the CEO

Its funny that one of the monuments of capitalism has bad WiFi because the roof had to be very fancy and imposing.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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."

The roof is covered in solar cells and collects rainwater while also letting in natural light, and Google calls it the "Gradient Canopy."

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."

Googlers assigned to the building are making do with Ethernet cables, using phones as hotspots, or working outside, where the Wi-Fi is stronger.

A Google spokesperson told Reuters the company has already made several improvements and hopes to have a fix in the coming weeks.

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Glad to see Google is embracing evil even with it's architecture now

L o l

Guessing the building was designed by an artist and not an engineer.

One anonymous employee told Reuters, "You’d think the world’s leading Internet company would have worked this out."

You don't think that's exactly why they constructed that building the way they did? WiFi is much less secure than a wired connection. It makes much more sense to me that they knew it would make WiFi not work as well to get more employees to used wired connections for security reasons.

Don't be evil

Tell me again why are C-level and VPs paid so much? 🤣

Thank god for a lick of sense. I literally do low voltage and controls design, they both have their place. Building a cluster of cubicles for accounting? Yeah, run some Ethernet to their docks. Building a warehouse production floor? You better have enough WAPs to confuse Cardi B installed so the little manager with his iPad can edit processes on the fly.

They're mostly soydevs, not network engineers.

"Googlers assigned to the building are making do with Ethernet cables, using phones as hotspots, or working outside, where the Wi-Fi is stronger."

How the fuck is a person that writes articles for a living not aware of the phrase "making due"? What goes through their mind when they write out "making do"? How the fuck does that make any sense to them?

I hate to be that guy, but come on. It's literally your job.

Edit: Now it's my job to admit that I was pretty damn wrong. Thanks chryan for posting this: https://www.grammar.com/make_do_vs._make_due