Why does nobody talk about the 3pm internet blackout in Ubud cafes?

I was working from a really popular spot in Ubud, Bali last week, and right at 3pm every single day, the Wi-Fi just died. I mean completely gone for a solid 45 minutes. At first I thought it was just my laptop, but then I saw everyone around me start to panic and pack up. The barista told me it's because all the local kids get home from school and flood the network. It made me realize I've built my whole schedule around my own time zone, not the local rhythm. I had to shift my deep work to the morning and use that dead time for errands or just reading. It was a small thing, but it totally changed how I plan my day in a new place. Has anyone else run into a predictable local pattern that messed with your work flow?

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rose_hart312mo ago

Oh, I just bought a local SIM card.

ivan_perez2mo ago

So the cafes just accept that daily dead zone? No one tries to boost the signal or anything?

nelson.finley2mo ago

Yeah it's wild how many places just accept these weird little dead spots. My gym has a corner by the free weights where you can't load a single webpage, and the grocery store checkout line is a total black hole. It's like we've all silently agreed to just live with these pockets of no service instead of fixing them, lol.