Update: After wiring my new house for internet, I found that turning off WPS on the router just causes more problems than it fixes.

But why does the kettle even need Wi-Fi?

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Tell me about it, I chased a perfect signal for months before I gave up. My advice? Skip the powerline adapters and just run a long ethernet cable across the floor like a tripwire, it builds character. Honestly, Willow Nelson has a point about the kettle, but once you get used to yelling at Alexa to boil water, going back to a button feels like peasant work. The real problem is that houses are built to keep us in, not to let Wi-Fi out.

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karen_carter6mo ago

Wow Mary, is the smart kettle really that big of a deal? It feels like we're chasing perfect signals for stuff that doesn't need it... A dead zone for a kettle just means you have to press a button, which is what we did for like a hundred years. Sometimes I wonder if the headache comes from wanting everything connected all the time, not from the actual problem.

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