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It sounds like it is smack in the middle of a large area where Broadcast TV, WiFi, and cellphones aren't allowed. Given the prevalence of those things in every
by pmorici 10y ago
It sounds like it is smack in the middle of a large area where Broadcast TV, WiFi, and cellphones aren't allowed. Given the prevalence of those things in everyday life you wonder how that effects the properties value regardless of the location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
- consto 10y agoBroadcast TV can be replaced with cable, WiFi can be (mostly) replaced with a good ethernet network in the home - it would have to be properly wired and I doubt powerline would cut it. However no cell phones. I'm guessing landlines and VoIP are popular.
- aab0 10y agoKids would go berserk in a setting like that, can you imagine? No Instagram, Snapchat, games, and on and on. Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket? They only have USB ports AFAIK. Any parent with kids >10yo who moves there with them will soon wish they had torn down the house and built a Faraday cage they can put Wifi into instead...
- cfallin 10y ago> Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket? Yup. I've done this with my Nexus 5. You need a USB OTG cable and a USB Ethernet adapter. Dorkiest thing ever, walking around the apartment trailing an Ethernet cable, but page-loads were pretty snappy, all right...
- aab0 10y agoNeat. I should've guessed that there would be a USB adapter. Is it plug-and-play or does it require additional drivers?
- cfallin 10y agoI'm pretty sure it was plug-and-play. It's actually kind of cool how many USB peripherals Android natively supports -- keyboards, mice, flash drives, etc...
- milkey_mouse 10y agoOf course; under the hood it's just Linux. Though Google has replaced most of the userspace drivers and stuff are still the same good old Linux ones.
- yompers888 10y agoI lived in the NRQZ and had no knowledge of the fact until maybe a year ago, long after I left. Some of the commenters here are ridiculous; we had cell phones, wifi, microwaves, radios, and probably anything else people here have come up with. I'll grant that the cell service was never great, but I always figured that was more a function of living in a pretty rural place (town of 20k).
- sehugg 10y agoThere is wifi at Snowshoe. I'm sure you could get away with home wifi if you kept it low-power. AT&T has even nerfed its network to allow limited cell phone usage. More: http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv-quiet-zone/ http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv...
- tlrobinson 10y agoIf you make your house a faraday cage would you be allowed to use WiFi?
- gambiting 10y agoMicrowaves are not allowed, because for the fraction of a second between you opening the door and the generator switching off there is always a tiny leakage of microwave energy - and it has actually set off radars in sensitive areas in the past. So to answer your question - probably not.
- avar 10y agoSo using a microwave but always using the timer or stop button is fine?
- gambiting 10y agoSure, but I guess one wouldn't be allowed in anyway.
- gambiting 10y agoI really have no idea why I got downvoted couple times - what I said is perfectly true: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov... Edit: and now downvotes on this post, despite containing nothing else but a link. Would anyone care to explain what is going on?
- tlrobinson 10y agoI can't speak to why people downvoted the first post (I upvoted it), but it's generally frowned upon to complain about people downvoting you. > Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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