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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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Views: 373
Comments: 5

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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#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.

IM 44 and Ill likely live to see the cataclysm. How about you?

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#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.

Horse  posted on  2023-10-07 09:27:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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