The WORST Money I've Ever Spent

[jakkuh_t]

Who needs a tinfoil hat when you can have a paper one?

 

 

[WhitetailAni]

This is the product for your grandma who thinks Wi-Fi is harmful.

[Quackers101]

Can you help me to reflect the 5G signal to my neighbor?!

That bastard have gone far enough, and I want to control his mind with the 5G signal, please I need help!

 

Also it has been mentioned about using the phones as towers to carry these signals to others, so does that mean I can use 5G laser beams on people?!?!

Please, we got to know! (just don't try to make a 5G track for mario racing and getting the whole neighborhood to start an racing challange outdoors)

*spends 1 million on mario karts*

[greenhorn]

Being an electrical engineer, I honestly don't know where to start here. The only useful thing you could do with that (besides using it as a paper holder as it was originally meant to) is to do another collab with ElectroBOOM...

[SansVarnic]

3...2...1... until the wifi gonna kill us all with cancer comments.

 

Seriously though, what a stupid ass product.

 

Buuuut if they are willing to believe in the bad wifi's then why not sell to stupid people?

Anyone remember the DVD-Rewinder?

[Quackers101]

2 minutes ago, greenhorn said:

is to do another collab with ElectroBOOM...

But he would burn their whole studio down! *BOOM* there it goes!

[PeachGr]

Serious suggestion
Can you make a sweet tiny ITX pc inside the "Large wifi guard"?
I thin kAlex will do a great job on that
I mean... you have an upcomming lifestream of PC builds, c mon!

[TO_Techy]

These TECHNICALLY aren't Faraday Cages. To be a Faraday Cage they would need to be grounded. I'd love to see a follow up video where you guys do ground them and see the impact on range.

[mariushm]

Just now, TO_Techy said:

These TECHNICALLY aren't Faraday Cages. To be a Faraday Cage they would need to be grounded. I'd love to see a follow up video where you guys do ground them and see the impact on range.

Put a capacitive dropper power supply and a led  in a tiny box in the corner and use a grounded power cable and you're golden.

 

They already do it for the power saving devices which are scam 

 

 

[Quackers101]

Then they buy a real product that blocks any waves, like ridge wallet, buy one today!

But will they do a video on a tier list of routers and if they do what you expect, like range, speed, multiple devices and testing out wifi 6?

might be way too much work, kinda would like to see what the different performance they might have and from a more "gaming" to a more "office" like router.

[kokosnh]

I don't get it, why not just disable wifi on the router/AP?

[Grabhanem]

I wonder if something like this (obviously not this particular product paper tray, but a faraday cage in general) has any use in extreme overclocking? I know Jay was having issues with interference from his wireless lavalier mics causing instability with LN2 overclocks.

[WereCatf]

23 minutes ago, TO_Techy said:

These TECHNICALLY aren't Faraday Cages. To be a Faraday Cage they would need to be grounded.

I'm no electrical engineer or anything, but I've also been under the impression that a proper Faraday-cage would be grounded. Without grounding, it's more like just bad shielding?

 

EDIT: After research, this doesn't appear to be the case. The reason those cages worked so poorly is because the mesh wasn't tight enough, not because they weren't grounded.

[kokosnh]

@Grabhanem actually PSU have emf standards, and well, bad PSU can be problem for the OC, but it's usually the ripple on power cables, nad voltage regulation, not the emf by itself, by air. 

But then we get to, can emf have effect on ripple, and I will already tell you, that I don't know.

 

[Dutch_Master]

You may see a Faraday cage, I see a very useful, while extremely well ventilated, PC case

 

Send'm to Steve at GN and I think he'll test the snot out of them to conclude they have excellent airflow!

[themrsbusta]

Good, now make a PC inside the large one

[Not_A_Spider]

Ubiquiti AP: ~15 watts

The sun: ~1,000 w/m2 at the surface

[greenhorn]

1 minute ago, themrsbusta said:

Good, now make a PC inside the large one

Cool, then do the Luke move (submerge the PC in oil) and the mesh looks like a deep fryer basket... /s

[TO_Techy]

1 hour ago, kokosnh said:

I don't get it, why not just disable wifi on the router/AP?

 

[HenrySalayne]

2 hours ago, jakkuh_t said:

Who needs a tinfoil hat when you can have a paper one?

Here is free tech tip from me: buy an RF Explorer. Don't use a phone as reference. Maybe the shielding just filters out the bad frequencies. Ever thought about that?

 

I sometimes got the slight feeling you are really bad equipped for a company focussing on technology.

[just_dave]

Man this is genius. Stupid people are getting finessed so hard. Guess I'm making a startup now. See you again as the world's first trillionaire.

[mickys]

Just to be the devil's advocate ...  over here in Romania, some ISP's give you their modem and force on one wireless network of their own ( "WI-Free" ) that their customers can use when around your place. You can't turn that off.

 

A proper faraday cage that actually works would be nice to stump on that practice.

[just_dave]

1 hour ago, Not_A_Spider said:

Ubiquiti AP: ~15 watts

The sun: ~1,000 w/m2 at the surface

And a good % of the sunlight spectrum is actually harmful, high energy UV light

[just_dave]

2 hours ago, WereCatf said:

I'm no electrical engineer or anything, but I've also been under the impression that a proper Faraday-cage would be grounded. Without grounding, it's more like just bad shielding?

 

EDIT: After research, this doesn't appear to be the case. The reason those cages worked so poorly is because the mesh wasn't tight enough, not because they weren't grounded.

The cage causes waves to reflect and scatter inside. Basically, look at your microwave glass door. If you ground it, the effect is going to be enhanced as some of the waves will be shorted to ground directly and not bounce back/scatter.

[mariushm]

51 minutes ago, mickys said:

Just to be the devil's advocate ...  over here in Romania, some ISP's give you their modem and force on one wireless network of their own ( "WI-Free" ) that their customers can use when around your place. You can't turn that off.

Disabling that wireless functionality would only help you if there's absolutely no other wireless networks around you. 

You're most likely in an apartment building where every apartment has some kind of wireless ... I'm in Romania on the 4th floor of a 4 story apartment building and I see 15 wireless networks besides my own, and you can see wireless access points from two different ISPs :