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[–] 135 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

Ask them what bandwidth range they claim he's sensitive to. Show them the level of background electromagnetic energy there is in that range anywhere on Earth by default, if they can even provide an answer to that. Suggest they should leave Earth.

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  • [–] [S] 77 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    Suggest they should leave Earth.

    If I knew of a way off this rock, do you think I'd let them enjoy it LMAO

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  • [–] 9 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Realistically, it's technically sideways. To reach orbit you need to go sideways, not up. Theoretically you could escape Earth's gravity influence by going straight away from it, but it's not the realistic way that works.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Actually, you go up. Then the earth rotates beneath you, turning your up into sideways.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    Technically a spiral because you start with orbital momentum just from standing still on the surface of earth when starting. You'd have to intentionally offset that to go straight but that's not the most efficient way

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  • [–] 121 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

    Ridiculous claim aside, if they want a solution they should be setting up like a chicken wire Faraday cage, not making this everyone else's problem.

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  • [–] 27 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    Maybe just in the child's room then, also you might want to ground that Faraday cage if they have anything that could be transmitting WiFi or Bluetooth or even is just a large screen.

    Also it needs to be a fine mesh because for blocking 5GHz WiFi you want the hole size to be a 1/20 of the wavelength which comes out to >4mm.

    Or an even cheaper solution would be to get one of those large "pet" cages and run a wire straight into the earth hole of a power socket.

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  • [–] 17 points 19 hours ago

    You theoretically don't "need" to ground a faraday cage if you want to block RF. I would do it anyway though.

    You're kinda right about the wavelength thing, but tinfoil would absolutely take care of it.

    Two layers if you're cautious. Separated by some thin non conductive layer, except connected at one point. To the better faraday cage.

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  • [–] 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    The Faraday cages I used to use in a lab testing RF devices, used copper screen.

    https://www.metroscreenworks.com/rolls-of-screen-all-types/pure-copper-screen/

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  • [–] 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    This is actually really nice.

    Even if human rf sensitivity were real, tin foil would work.

    You're sharing actual faraday cage material.

    Real EE stuff. Probably better than the cage material that I know that lines MRI rooms.

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  • [–] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    A tinfoil hat is a portable solution.

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  • [–] 88 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

    You don't use wifi cause you believe it gives you wifi cancer.
    I don't use wifi cause a $6 ethernet cable gives me faster and more dependable internet.
    We are definitely not the same.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    Latency and reliability I can see, but at this point the bandwidth has become pretty immense that I would have a hard time saturating it.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    I wired up my office, and when I speed tested it, the shitty Ethernet adapter in my USB-C dock was slightly slower than just using wifi.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

    I had a similar experience moving into a new apartment that had ethernet sockets in all the walls. Took me a while to realize that the cables connecting the sockets up were oldschool Cat5 (100Mbps max) cable, so even though I was plugging Cat6a into the wall it didn't do a lick of good. Wi-Fi 6 on the other hand is giving me a little under 1Gbps.

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  • [–] 84 points 19 hours ago* (14 children)

    It's not about the wifi, it's the perception of wifi.

    These people get upset when they think there's wifi, actual wifi is irrelevant. You can gut a router and fit the case with an AA battery and an LED and they'll have 'symptoms' if they see it.

    Set up an access point to broadcast dozens of SSIDs so they see tons of wifi when they open the wifi screen on their phones.

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  • [–] 54 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

    My aunt used to get these terrible itches and headaches when she visits us, untill I turn off the wifi.

    Some minor experimenting has lead me to a breakthrough though. I found she's not allergic to wifi, but to green indicator LEDs. Ever since I disabled the LED, her problems have been solved!

    My husband won't let me tell her though. Something about "live and let live".

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago* (5 children)

    What? How would that even work? Green LEDs emit the same spectrum that the sun does a million times over. And TVs and LED lighting emit the same thing.

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  • [–] 15 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    Open the wifi on their phones

    Then, they’re hypocrites.

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  • [–] 80 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

    Everyone knows WiFi routers generate phlogiston which unbalances the 4 humors and causes brain clouds.

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  • [–] 44 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

    Stop your bullshit fear mongering. We all know phlogiston is perfectly safe. The real problem is that 5g draws in miasma from local cemeteries.

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  • [–] 17 points 18 hours ago*

    You might want to be careful calling people out like that: it's not solved science.

    I can remember people confidently arguing (and citing sources) that phlogiston is the problem and the miasma theory is quackery. Seems like every year we learn something new and it goes back and forth. "Are eggs healthy or not?", "Do crystals work via homeopathy or latent energies?", "Lizard people or greys?" etc.

    Personally, I sidestep the issue and avoid both. I stick to things that have been settled as being healthy: like drinking massive quanties of colloidal silver.

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  • [–] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    This is why it’s not economical to keep burying the dead in large fields like graveyards. All the pastureized miasma is not healthy! We need raw miasma like in the French catacombs. Why do you think they saw a renaissance?

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  • [–] 39 points 23 hours ago

    Neighbor after anon plugs in new router:

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  • [–] 37 points 11 hours ago* (11 children)

    Wi-Fi Sickness? Bruh, where on this planet are you not going to be surrounded by it? There's satellite linked internet projecting Wi-Fi to rural areas as we type.

    You can go to the tallest mountain on this planet away from everything and you might just be giving yourself a better signal to Starlink.

    Wi-Fi Sickness I looked it up, it's mostly idiopathic and it's not a scientifically valid sickness. It's oddly enough more attributed to negative expectations and thinking that Wi-Fi is more harmful than it is and can give the brain a preconceived notion, that messes with perception of danger and that can cause anxiety WHICH causes the feeling of feeling sick.

    So basically, it's not real and the person needs therapy and the person giving in to the paranoid/anxious delusion of Wi-Fi sickness should put their parenting pride aside and take them to a therapist.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Where i usef to work was a sizable grocery store and i would often go and get my lunch from there. It was also home of a pretty weird cult like religious group. They weren't super popular because tgey would always buy bulk groceries to rush hour times and never wated their things "lasered" so, scanned. This is dumb enough when you think about it for more than a second, but they have enough time to think about the fact that their things don't just get "lasered" by the cashier.

    Another thing i whitenessed once was when they set up a new mobile phone antenna where i live. A lot of old people complained about it the moment construction started. When the date came around where they turned it on, i woke up and my signal was still shit. A lot of people wrote angry letters that they now have migraines because of the antenna and the mobile company responded basically with: well that sucks to hear, but because of technical difficulties, we had to push the date up another month, but we hope your migraine gets better.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    There's a 5G antenna on top of a grocery mart and there's one at the top of a trail. The one at the top of the trail used to be a trail frequented by elderly people going on health walks and walking their dogs. I hardly see any elderly people on that trail, people walk their dogs and take their kids up there but the elderly people aren't going up there anymore.

    That one if you go near it because you can walk right up to it, it does make your head ring and there's even a sign that warns people about the high frequency, so there's something to it because I mean I can't sit in my living room on humid days because the signal from my router screeches to me and my fiance can't hear it. I've gotten nauseated before from signals, it's just not scientifically valid.

    I can understand it but I can't approve of the actual scientific notion that it's real because on those days, if I just relax it goes away.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I agree with the validity of what you're saying, but usually for patients who are insistent that they suffer from this, the recommendation is to move to this area:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    What's funny is that if you look up "radio sickness" there's nothing. DDG literally returns nothing. They couch their beliefs in terms associated with modern tech. It's not 5,000,000hz radio waves, it's 5G Wifi!

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Anon wants a point to point directional antenna. Focuses the radio beam in one direction.

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  • [–] 12 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

    All you really need is any old router you can flash custom firmware on. Wifi signal strength radio waves are fcc regulated to be no more than 1w (30 dBm) but routers are physically capable of much more, so with a custom firmware, you can crank that sucker up higher than anything new and high end off the store shelves.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

    Why did they limit to that level? I would like to try this, but I assume the FCC had a good reason to limit it

    EDIT: found this page https://infishark.com/blogs/learn/wifi-transmit-power-limits-by-region that says the US has the highest limits already

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  • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    Not why the FCC cares but WiFi systems stop broadcasting if they can even slightly hear another broadcaster on the channel. If everyone broacasts as loud as possible WiFi speeds would be absolutely awful. So to get good speeds everyone should ideally broadcast as quietly as possible. This is one of the reasons for 5ghz WiFi: the propagation distance is terrible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    So wait, does this mean that if you boosted the shit out of an old router you could effectively force shutdown nearby wifi? If one was so inclined to such shenaniganry, that is

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  • No being louder just increases the number of neighbors who's networks you slow not how slow they get. Your old rounter will stop talking for a random interval if it hears anyone else talking so it wouldn't completely jam anyone. Furthermore your immediate neighbors would probably switch to a different channel. If you got lots of routers on all the different channels and a ton of random devices connected to them sending data you could really slow things down. WiFi slows with congestion. Being louder increases the range you congest.

    If it worked the way you described WiFi in apartment buildings strait up wouldn't work. Which admittedly WiFi in appartment buildings doesn't work well.

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    Back in the days of LAN parties if the host had shitty/no internet I'd bring an old DirectTV dish with a usb 802.11b wifi dongle zip-tied to the transducer.

    It worked great for stealing wifi from any unsecured AP within 2 miles we had line of sight on.

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  • [–] 20 points 23 hours ago

    The son in question

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  • [–] 20 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    Don't forget to do seperate 2ghz and 5ghz SSIDS...oh and guest networks

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  • [–] 17 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    Naming them can also have big effects on the illness. Satan's private porn wifi 5ghz Jesus private onlyfans wifi 2ghz

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Necronomiconnect always gets a cackle from me.

    But you can be a bastard.
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    Remote_audio_capture
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    PALANTIR-666

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  • [–] 36 points 22 hours ago

    A few years back got some new neighbors. This is in rural TX, everybody has at least one acre of land. There is plenty of room to just fuck off and mind their own business.

    Anyway, new neighbor comes over and demands I quit using my smoker because it bothers his wife. We laugh him off the property lol.

    He calls the cops throwing a fit and eventually got his dumbass arrested for disorderly conduct.

    They moved away shortly thereafter, we still laugh about it around the neighborhood.

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  • [–] 13 points 23 hours ago

    CHICHANERY!

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    There are forms of electro-sensitivity that can disturb people, but usually it's from loud and poorly phased circuits in homes. Never wifi.

    A lot of errie/haunted buildings are actually just electrically loud, and a number of them become peaceful once the wiring is fixed.

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  • [–] 22 points 23 hours ago

    "Does your house go buzz in the night? Don't know whether it's a light switch or a wight witch? Call Steve's 24/7 Electric and Exorcism Service. 1-800-ZAP-GHOST. We'll put your noisy circuit or your grandma's spirit to rest so you can rest too. Licensed by the Office of Electrical Workers and the Vatican."

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  • [–] 8 points 23 hours ago* (1 child)

    I knew someone who claimed to get migraines from being near devices but way less if their is a cactus right next to the device.

    Scientifacly its a myth and makes no sense but i knew them good enough that they really suffered from migraines and really believed the cacti helped.

    Anecdotally i heard of a family that had to move because one of their kids developed head aches after a new cell tower was put up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)

    Both can be true. The electrical noise just makes it easier for them to be heard.

    Edit: I did not think I needed an /s for this…

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  • [–] 12 points 23 hours ago
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    I feel so bad for the poor kids in these situations. I so very loathe how many innocent children have to suffer - for at least nearly a couple decades straight - because their parents are awful and/or totally off their rocker. I've lived it myself and it's so miserable and crazy-making!

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  • [–] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    At first I thought neighbor’s parents were just restricting their kid’s internet access and dude was being a bro.

    Even though it’s fake and gay, this is pretty dark.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Anon probably wants some kind of mesh system

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