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At some point it probably makes sense to line each apt in rf blocking sheets and then have only your own wifi inside. Would cause problems with guests on 4g tho
by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
At some point it probably makes sense to line each apt in rf blocking sheets and then have only your own wifi inside. Would cause problems with guests on 4g though.
- Waterluvian 6y agoI wonder if that's legal. Big apartment buildings that block cell signals and whatnot.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoIt’s illegal to jam signals but I can’t imagine it’s illegal to shield from them. Just concrete does it well enough.
- walrus01 6y agoIt's not illegal to have copper wallpaper or whatever, if you want to go full faraday cage. Passive signal blocking is legal. There might be a few situations (movie theatre?) where you would want to install a big obvious sign stating that wireless devices will not communicate outside the room. It's really no different than being in the third level sub-basement of a concrete parking garage. Jammers are not legal, unless you're operating them in a shielded RF test chamber.
- ForHackernews 6y agoIt would make more sense to just have one fat pipe for the whole building and one wifi network with multiple APs. Or just a municipal wifi that everyone in town could share. But hey, capitalism, gotta have everyone paying $39.99/month to clog up the airwaves with redundant SSIDs.
- toyg 6y agoIt would also drain the battery of any phone you forget to switch to wifi-only. Most phones, when dealing with tenuous or absent xG signal, will try harder and harder to transmit.