• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Stucco includes a layer of chicken wire like materiel, sometimes actual chickenwire

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    1 month ago

    a while back i had the bizzare realization that it should genuinely be a really good idea to line our walls with chicken wire or something to block wifi-frequency signals, it has a bunch of benefits and i can’t think of any real downside aside from slightly more annoying construction if you want it to look nice.

    It protects you from snooping by people standing outside your home, protects from using wifi to see things inside your house (at the very least where your access point is, that’s as easy as seeing where the signal is strongest), and it stops signal pollution which means you don’t have to worry about all the networks around you and you can just crank up your own signal strength and use whatever channels you want.

    The only major downside i can see that might make you actively not want this is the ability to access your wifi from the yard, but in that case you could maybe just line the front of the house or get an extra AP for the yard that you keep on lower signal power?

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      1 month ago

      Faraday cages can attenuate most radio signals, not just WiFi. If you still want “AM radio”, VHF (“FM radio”, OTA TV), and cellular, you would need an external antenna for each of these.

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        1 month ago

        which i’d imagine barely anyone cares about any more, if you have wifi you don’t really need a phone signal and radio can be had via internet (same for TV)