Shaping the wireless coverage area - keeping it in the house

This NG has lots of references to antenna design. Google away.

"TBerk" hath wroth:

Yep. anti Wi-Fi wallpaper. See: |

| 2.4GHz, and passes everything else. Turn your house into a frequency selective shield room.

If you want to block everything, and not just wi-fi, then aluminum siding, foil backed roofing material, and aluminized mylar on the windows should do the trick. However, be advised that these are not effective against cosmic rays and whatever the government is using for mind control.

Not easily. It's best to absorb RF rather then reflect it. That's how an anechoic (no echo) RF chamber works. The carbon cones on the wall absorb any RF that hits them. The cone shape disperses reflections and also makes the system more broadband than a wall.

in such a chamber would be spooky. It also deadens the ambient sounds, which causes ones hearing sensitivity to increase. I could hear my heart beating and blood sloshing through my circulatory system.

Of course, you could use the opposite approach and simply install a wi-fi jammer near the likely parking places or directed at the troublesome neighbors. It would not need to be very powerful. If you want to sweep the entire neighborhood, an antenna attached to a microwave oven should give you temporary air superiority (until the antenna melts).

You'll need a ham radio license to do this.

One of the local coffee shops had the same problem. They didn't like having the neighbors using the connection. I came up with a fairly complex method of measuring the distance between the client and the access point. Anything off premisis was simply dropped. The owner didn't like it (too expensive) so he just turned down the access point xmit power. End of problem.

You can redirect the signal with reflectors. Using the room as a reflect methinks is a bit overkill. Something like:

more appropriate.

Have you checked with your wife or ladyfriend about this? There's certainly a limit as to how much redecoration you'll be able to do. I don't think a large salad bowl hidden behind a mirror will pass the aesthetics tests. I realize that the uglier the antenna, the better it works, but that's only for outdoor antennas. Interior antennas and reflectors should be regarded as furniture and must be color matched, pleasing to the eye, child safe, etc. Ummm... don't use my house as a suitable example.

Geee, I thought you were serious.

Build a Faraday cage around your house. That will keep out wardrivers as well as the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

But don't blame me if you end up on the terrorist watch list... ;)

This was the genesis of the Freeantenna parabolic reflector. Have a look at

You can see the original story on the page "The Original Parabolic Reflector Template".

I like the EZ-12 Windsurfer.

Whoa!! Tinfoil AKA aluminum foil works just fine for all but the most intense government mind control rays. It is misleading of you to suggest otherwise. Cosmc rays are another matter, depends on point of orign.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

rico snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (Rico) hath wroth:

There are claims that aluminum foil works with mind control (psychotronic) rays:

'm not convinced that they work as evident by the large number of government employees that act more like zombies than humans. Considering that the aluminum foil industry ships enough aluminum foil to totally cover much of the United States, one would expect that the country is well protected against mind control rays. However, the zombification of much of the government is sufficient evidence that the foil is largely ineffective.

For real protection, I recommend using software instead of tin foil:

installing and using the software, I have successfully resisted checking my email, avoided eBay looking for bargains, and even skipped my turn with online gaming. The software has reinforced my self control, dramatically reduced my tendencies toward compulsive internet behavior, and allowed me to see subliminal suggestions in everything. I'm waiting for the software upgrade that will immunize me against compulsively posting absurdities in usenet newsgroups.

you use AOL `s software then ? :))

I hope the mail man never makes this last delivery, too much fun would be lost.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

Boy, ain't that the truth!

alien

rico snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (Rico) hath wroth:

Perhaps the government is catching on. Aluminum foil lined apparel is illegal in Colorado:

again.