4um: Dartmouth researchers reveal why your Wi-Fi router should be wrapped in aluminum foil

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Title: Dartmouth researchers reveal why your Wi-Fi router should be wrapped in aluminum foil
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URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science ... ter-wrapped-aluminum-foil.html
Published: Oct 6, 2023
Author: Mike Rivero
Post Date: 2023-10-06 22:26:02 by Horse
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If your Wi-Fi router's signal is dragging in certain parts of your house, the solution might just be in your kitchen drawer.
Standard, 0.024-millimeter-thick household aluminum foil was shown to be just about as good as other, more expensive signal-reflecting metals like copper and silver, according to computer scientists at Dartmouth University.
The researchers masterminded a simple hack that promises not only to improve your wireless signal, but can even strengthen your cybersecurity, for about as much money as it costs to wrap your leftovers.
Crazy as it may sound, a 'tinfoil hat' on your router may also help you be less paranoid about hackers sneaking on to your wireless network.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
And to think I use the foil to keep the voices in… Who knew?
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TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2023-10-06 23:39:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
And to think I use the foil to keep the voices in… Who knew?

I think if my neighbor does that nonsense, I won't have an internet connection anymore (he knows I'm doing that, he owes me).
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TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
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Esso posted on 2023-10-06 23:44:46 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: Horse (#0)
Are we talking 5 dollar special premium aluminum or 99 cents dollar store tin?
Or something even less inbetween like chroam knoack off plated with polymere shiners....

Is the easiest source of the foil coated in anything I might need to burn or wash off?

Wouldnt lead be better , so as to not attenuate...??? I kinda like to be sure to overcome that when Im wraping something in a big metal ball.
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titorite posted on 2023-10-06 23:46:18 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Horse, 4um (#0)
I almost never use my cell phone. I'm not that self-important.

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“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
Esso posted on 2023-10-06 23:49:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: titorite (#3)
I started first grade in 1950 so I figure I am older than you are. But I expect that the Beginning of the End starts in 2024.
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Horse posted on 2023-10-07 9:27:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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