Wireless issue

[Houses4Rent]

I went to Incredible Corruption and traded my old banger in and bought a Netgear router which seem to have resolved the problem. They say they are not only sensitive to switching on spikes (which I can control a bit), but also when power suddenly drops. Does not make much sense as what difference is it if I switch it off or if council switches it off via load shedding?

[Justloadit]

The difference is when you physically push the switch off, there is an instant stop to the flow of current.
When the council switches their switch gear off, there is a huge amount of inductive loads on the system, like motors, fluorescent lights and so forth, which means that although the supply is off, the decaying magnetic fields in all these inductive loads still want to supply the grid, but because of the impedance, it decays at a slower rate. Small equipment can get the power supplies and microprocessors in a tiz and do not quite shut down in an orderly manner, which in many cases means that the saving of data in to non volatile memories is int erupted and may get corrupted, and hence the problem when the power comes back on.

[Houses4Rent]

In plain English: Are you saying that when council switches off some stuff is still floating for a while around messing up gear?

[Justloadit]

Yes. Inductive loads cause a back EMF

[Houses4Rent]

Thanks, I do not understand it as electrics is not my forte, but trust you on that.

[Sparks]

When explaining electricity to a child I often compare it to water, always goes down to earth for example. Pressure and flow rate depends on thickness of the hose and how many/type of sprinklers on it. When you close the tap, there is still a little water that comes out the end. Water from sprinklers on higher ground makes it's way out of the sprinklers on lower ground, even though the tap is closed.