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Everyone is missing the point of this product. It's not to stop wifi stealing - that's the marketing department badly trying to make the product easier to sell
by nemesisj 14y ago
Everyone is missing the point of this product. It's not to stop wifi stealing - that's the marketing department badly trying to make the product easier to sell and the blog being lazy.
The reason you'd buy this is to keep the radio spectrum within your room yours. Like someone else said - this would open up more channels to you and prevent the guy downstairs running a microwave or buying a cordless phone from screwing with your signal.
- rdl 14y agoNo, the reason for this is security -- keeping your radio networks internal. Even with crypto on your main links, you never know when someone will set up an ad-hoc wireless, hotspot, etc., potentially bridging a secure network to the world. Obviously you'd want to know dB shielding figures at various freqs, which you're unlikely to get from a crappy mass market article. This kind of wallpaper is already commonly available. Also door seals, window treatments, etc. It would be kind of worthless for normal, residential use (or even a regular office) since it would likely kill cellular bands (any badly installed wallpaper to screen 2.4GHz will hit 1.9GHz I'm sure). Plus, expensive.
- greenyoda 14y agoIf you wanted to keep out radio waves from the guy downstairs, wouldn't you have to put this wallpaper on your floor?