[email protected] wrote: ↑29 Feb 2024, 11:05
@ChristophSmaul1337, in 2018 you changed something in your house ... you need to remember.... changed lamps, inventory, ferniture or your PC-Room?
I do remember this quite well. Acutally, no. In 2018, when problems were starting to appear, nothing was changed.
In terms of lamps, we always had LED light bulbs for years already, with no effect whatsoever. These things seem to last forever, I haven't had to switch any bulbs for more than 10 years. Any other lamps in the house are also LEDs, and we haven't changed any one of these out either after 2018.
Inventory in general yes, but nothing which would have any electrical or internet connection. I did buy a height adjustable table, but that was in 2015 already, before problems started. After 2018, I only got myself a new bed, but it's "analog", without any connection to the internet or the power. I bought it in 2020, when the problems were already present for 2 years. No other change since then whatsoever.
I am also still in the same room, in which I have been in since at least 20 years. I have changed the table's orientation in the room once, but only after 2018 as a troubleshooting step. It's all back in it's original place right now. Furthermore, I don't own any "smart home" devices that would connect to the internet. My lightbulbs aren't smart, my switches aren't smart, my roller blinds aren't smart, not even my garages have electric doors.
Everything is analog and the only devices connected to the internet are this PC (hardwired) and an iPhone, two iPads over WLAN and two wireless telephones over DECT. The TVs are capable of internet access, but I've deliberately switched that function off since I don't use it and my grandma doesn't even know what the internet is. I do buy new iPhones and iPads every year, and they are connected to the internet and sometimes the power when charging, but of course I've already considered this and tried to switch off the WLAN, turn them all off, drained their batteries completely, and even left all of them in the car switched off. Nothing made a difference to the problem.
EDIT: Totally forgot I wanted to add this. I've read through all the other replies here and while I'm really happy that people have discovered that for them, it might be their body causing some weird issues, it clearly isn't related to my problem at all. If you have problems independent from location, date or time, that might be the correct avenue for you to go to and investigate further. For me, it's as easy as going one street down and the problems are gone. If it really was my body, then the same problems must be present one street down, too. I don't change my body on the way out the door, at least not as far as I'm aware of. My specific case simply can't possibly be affected by that.
Furthermore, my basic understanding would tell me that the body being the cause of some sort of weird interference is somewhat unrealistic, in my layman opinion. Last time I checked, a very small voltage is enough that you are either really, really annoyed by it (3V) or it feels like torture (around 9V). ElectroBOOM has great videos on this topic. I have a high degree of doubt that a tiny voltage of less than 3V DC (so you don't notice it) could cause so much interference for a computer that it would cause input lag mayhem.
You would also definitely notice that there is some sort of voltage originating from your body any time you touch an object that provides a low resistance path to ground, like for example your PC case, as that would enable current to flow very easily. Say your body "creates" (it can't i know) some 3V of voltage and you touch your PC case. The motherboard is screwed into the case, and the motherboard is connected to the PSU, and the PSU is grounded. The ground wire goes to your electrical panel and is bonded with the neutral. This creates a very low resistance path for electricity to return to the source, let's just assume 1 Ohms. That would mean that there would be 3 Amps of current flowing as soon as you touch your PC case. Ouch!
All of this ignores the fact that even if our bodies could produce some small voltage, it couldn't create the above mentioned current flow. Human skin in dry condition has a resistance of upwards of 100,000 Ohms, so at let's say 3V, a current of 0.00003 amps could flow. I find it hard to believe that this could have any effect on computer hardware whatsoever, but again, I'm not a physicist and no electrician. Maybe it could, you never know. Nevertheless if this was the case, you would definitely feel it happening.
If your body really would emit some form of voltage, buying a grounding strap (the ones you use for PC building) should discharge any buildup of static and "free" your body from whatever electricity there is, solving the problem. And yes, I've tried that just for fun and it did nothing.