Just spent 2 hours trying to fix a wifi dead zone... turns out it was a firmware update I skipped

I moved into this old house in Austin last month and the bedroom corner kept dropping signal. I bought a new router, moved it around, even tried tin foil behind it like some YouTube guy said. After 4 days of messing around, I checked the router admin page and saw a firmware update from 2021. Updated it and the dead zone vanished instantly. Has anyone else wasted a ton of time on a fix that ended up being something stupid simple like that?

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the_val6h ago

Went through almost the same thing last year. My kitchen TV kept buffering every night at 7pm sharp and I spent three weeks swapping cables, repositioning the antenna, even bought a signal booster. Turned out it was a firmware glitch that only kicked in when the living room lights were on because of some interference thing. Updated the router and never had an issue again. Felt like a real idiot staring at that update button for three weeks.