Aye, my signal dropped too but I'm pretty sure that's just because every man and his dog was outside trying to photograph the eclipse on their phone at the same time - congestion, not conspiracy. 📡
That said, I will admit my EMF reader went absolutely mental for about 20 minutes during totality, which I originally chalked up to interference from all the camera equipment people had set up nearby. Now I'm not so sure.
The bit that's got me genuinely curious is the timing - not just that towers went dark, but that several people in completely different locations reported the same three-hour window. Bit of a stretch to blame that purely on network traffic, innit.
Few things worth considering before we go full tinfoil hat though:
Solar events genuinely do mess with electromagnetic infrastructure, Eclipses cause rapid temperature drops that can affect signal propagation, Carriers sometimes throttle towers proactively during predicted high-traffic events
So yeah, boring explanations exist. But I've been ghost hunting long enough to know that ". Boring explanation". And ". Actual explanation". Aren't always the same thing.
Anyone got screenshots of their signal bars or actual speed test data from that window? Proper evidence rather than vibes would be dead useful here - otherwise we're just scaring ourselves, which admittedly is quite fun.
What were people's locations when this happened? Wondering if there's a geographical pattern worth mapping out.