It’s not about the wifi, it’s the perception of wifi.
These people get upset when they think there’s wifi, actual wifi is irrelevant. You can gut a router and fit the case with an AA battery and an LED and they’ll have ‘symptoms’ if they see it.
Set up an access point to broadcast dozens of SSIDs so they see tons of wifi when they open the wifi screen on their phones.
You don’t use wifi cause you believe it gives you wifi cancer.
I don’t use wifi cause a $6 ethernet cable gives me faster and more dependable internet.
We are definitely not the same.What if you have rectal cancer after years of inserting a ethernet cable int your ass for more dependable orgasms?
He said Internet, not intercourse.
Ridiculous claim aside, if they want a solution they should be setting up like a chicken wire Faraday cage, not making this everyone else’s problem.
I hate people like this because their son could really be sick with something, but they’ve decided it is the WiFi and they aren’t getting him the care he needs. Woowoo people I swear.
The Faraday cages I used to use in a lab testing RF devices, used copper screen.
https://www.metroscreenworks.com/rolls-of-screen-all-types/pure-copper-screen/
This is actually really nice.
Even if human rf sensitivity were real, tin foil would work.
You’re sharing actual faraday cage material.
Real EE stuff. Probably better than the cage material that I know that lines MRI rooms.
Yeah, it was some crazy stuff. We used to do mobile handsets, GPS, WiFi and other consumer electronics testing.
We’ve be locked in cages like - https://engineering.ssl.berkeley.edu/faraday-cage/
Maybe just in the child’s room then, also you might want to ground that Faraday cage if they have anything that could be transmitting WiFi or Bluetooth or even is just a large screen.
Also it needs to be a fine mesh because for blocking 5GHz WiFi you want the hole size to be a 1/20 of the wavelength which comes out to >4mm.
Or an even cheaper solution would be to get one of those large “pet” cages and run a wire straight into the earth hole of a power socket.
You theoretically don’t “need” to ground a faraday cage if you want to block RF. I would do it anyway though.
You’re kinda right about the wavelength thing, but tinfoil would absolutely take care of it.
Two layers if you’re cautious. Separated by some thin non conductive layer, except connected at one point. To the better faraday cage.
A tinfoil hat is a portable solution.
Copper wire works better I hear
Everyone knows WiFi routers generate phlogiston which unbalances the 4 humors and causes brain clouds.
Stop your bullshit fear mongering. We all know phlogiston is perfectly safe. The real problem is that 5g draws in miasma from local cemeteries.
You might want to be careful calling people out like that: it’s not solved science.
I can remember people confidently arguing (and citing sources) that phlogiston is the problem and the miasma theory is quackery. Seems like every year we learn something new and it goes back and forth. “Are eggs healthy or not?”, “Do crystals work via homeopathy or latent energies?”, “Lizard people or greys?” etc.
Personally, I sidestep the issue and avoid both. I stick to things that have been settled as being healthy: like drinking massive quanties of colloidal silver.
This is why it’s not economical to keep burying the dead in large fields like graveyards. All the pastureized miasma is not healthy! We need raw miasma like in the French catacombs. Why do you think they saw a renaissance?
I’ve been saying this for years. A properly balanced body should contain equal parts blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and cemetery dust. Anything else is a nutritional deficiency.
How come nobody is even talking about orogone?
A few years back got some new neighbors. This is in rural TX, everybody has at least one acre of land. There is plenty of room to just fuck off and mind their own business.
Anyway, new neighbor comes over and demands I quit using my smoker because it bothers his wife. We laugh him off the property lol.
He calls the cops throwing a fit and eventually got his dumbass arrested for disorderly conduct.
They moved away shortly thereafter, we still laugh about it around the neighborhood.
@Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio I don’t know what a smoker is, but I presume it… gives off smoke?
If said wife is asthmatic I can imagine how it could bother her. Smoke does seriously affect people with lung diseases.
Of course, that doesn’t give anyone the right to demand anything. But it may help understand where they’re coming from 🤷
(1) 1 acre is 4,047m^2. If it were a perfect square it would have a edge length of 64m (209ft). This means that the houses are separated by about that distance.
(2) Asking a Texan to not smoke meat on their own property will get you laughted at regardless of context. Texas.
It’s for smoking meat, but it does not put off an objectionable amount of smoke. There was no mention of asthma, (wouldn’t have made any difference mind you) I think they were just ridiculously entitled 🤣
It probably smelled too good and was making them hungry lmfao, but if it were me I would have said “Can I throw a couple bucks at you and have you smoke some extra for me next time you do this?”
Hell yeah, I will happily cook any meat people bring me lol. You ain’t gotta pay me, just let me quality test a few bites 🤣
Can I be your neighbour!?!
Some people have smokers even in suburban homes. These guys had an acre of land between them. There’s no way a smoker would have produced enough smoke to bother her, especially if she just stayed inside.
Ask them what bandwidth range they claim he’s sensitive to. Show them the level of background electromagnetic energy there is in that range anywhere on Earth by default, if they can even provide an answer to that. Suggest they should leave Earth.
Suggest they should leave Earth.
If I knew of a way off this rock, do you think I’d let them enjoy it LMAO
Neighbor after anon plugs in new router:
Anon wants a point to point directional antenna. Focuses the radio beam in one direction.
Back in the days of LAN parties if the host had shitty/no internet I’d bring an old DirectTV dish with a usb 802.11b wifi dongle zip-tied to the transducer.
It worked great for stealing wifi from any unsecured AP within 2 miles we had line of sight on.
All you really need is any old router you can flash custom firmware on. Wifi signal strength radio waves are fcc regulated to be no more than 1w (30 dBm) but routers are physically capable of much more, so with a custom firmware, you can crank that sucker up higher than anything new and high end off the store shelves.
Why did they limit to that level? I would like to try this, but I assume the FCC had a good reason to limit it
EDIT: found this page https://infishark.com/blogs/learn/wifi-transmit-power-limits-by-region that says the US has the highest limits already
Not why the FCC cares but WiFi systems stop broadcasting if they can even slightly hear another broadcaster on the channel. If everyone broacasts as loud as possible WiFi speeds would be absolutely awful. So to get good speeds everyone should ideally broadcast as quietly as possible. This is one of the reasons for 5ghz WiFi: the propagation distance is terrible.
There are forms of electro-sensitivity that can disturb people, but usually it’s from loud and poorly phased circuits in homes. Never wifi.
A lot of errie/haunted buildings are actually just electrically loud, and a number of them become peaceful once the wiring is fixed.
Is this related to the ghost tone?
“Does your house go buzz in the night? Don’t know whether it’s a light switch or a wight witch? Call Steve’s 24/7 Electric and Exorcism Service. 1-800-ZAP-GHOST. We’ll put your noisy circuit or your grandma’s spirit to rest so you can rest too. Licensed by the Office of Electrical Workers and the Vatican.”
I knew someone who claimed to get migraines from being near devices but way less if their is a cactus right next to the device.
Scientifacly its a myth and makes no sense but i knew them good enough that they really suffered from migraines and really believed the cacti helped.
Anecdotally i heard of a family that had to move because one of their kids developed head aches after a new cell tower was put up.
Both can be true. The electrical noise just makes it easier for them to be heard.
Edit: I did not think I needed an /s for this…
Fuck do you mean “both”? Like the houses are actually haunted? Or wifi actually makes people sick?
One of the makes you fun crazy, the other makes you lead paint crazy.
I feel so bad for the poor kids in these situations. I so very loathe how many innocent children have to suffer - for at least nearly a couple decades straight - because their parents are awful and/or totally off their rocker. I’ve lived it myself and it’s so miserable and crazy-making!
The son in question
What if its reverse psychology. With your new router they’re gonna hog your wifi which now has good coverage all over their house
Anon probably wants some kind of mesh system
Me with two Meshtastic Sensecap T1000-E:
Dude wants a router, and you’re bringing a T-1000 to the party?!
He plays to win
CHICHANERY!
