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I still have a soft spot for troll physics. Needs more magnets, though.
The moving parts could disturb MIMO
So better use a fanless Dyson fan? 🤔
Now we’re thinking with portals
Anon accidentally recreates the Michelson-Morley experiment.
It will probably reflect some of the radiation. Wifi reception will be poorer behind the aluminium and possibly better in front.
A cheapskates version of a directional antenna.
I unironically do something similar to this. In my area, the only options are a dogshit local WISP, Starlink/other satellite, or (where possible) cellular.
I am one of the “lucky” people who are able to use cell for my internet, however whether it’s the cell company having a craptastic network, software/hardware bugs on the my customer equipment, or a combination of both, there is only ONE cell tower I can connect to which yields a useful connection.
All other towers result in the equipment failing to connect to the tower, connecting but failing to get an internet connection, or only yielding download speeds 5Mbit of less.
I have found that by shoving sheet metal around my ISP’s equipment, I can quite easily block off the non-functional towers and ensure they’re never connected to. I don’t think speeds are any better, but it does help with reliability.
I wonder if it’s not only boxing the other towers but also boring the signal to the one you are aiming at, because you put a big mirror behind
I have tried that. I have a dish taken from a directional WiFi antenna. When placed behind the gateway, it sometimes increases speeds, sometimes hurts speeds, and sometimes does nothing. I found it a bit too inconsistent, and a bit too ugly, to be used permanently. If I had a proper mounting solution, I might have gotten it tuned just right, however at that point I would rather just buy and mount external antennas to hook into the gateway.
My exact deployment today actually doesn’t even have anything behind the gateway. That is just because for my specific case, all the towers it can reach are within a roughly 90 degree field of view. To block the bad ones, I really only need to block off a few sections of the window it’s sitting near.
I can’t tell if this is legit or an elaborate troll.
This can actually be beneficial if your router is right at the corner of your house. The foil acts as a reflector for some of the radiation that would’ve been wasted, and thus improves the signal quality within your house.
I am 80% sure this is a net loss with modern mu-mimo radios, and it will absolutely trash your phy rate
To actually be beneficial as a reflector, the foil would need to be a specific distance from the antenna, which should be a certain fraction of the wavelength. Source: I used to make parabolic reflectors out of milk cartons about twenty years ago.
uh, is this real?
Not as effective as the anti-5G wire cages.
I stumbled onto these on Amazon last night actually. The user submitted video reviews are insane. I was screaming. I got to the head scarf that blocks the 5Gs and I had to stop.
EMF BLOCKING BASEBALL CAP
Oh that’s just magical lol
Remember Pringles antennas? Same energy.
