WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.960 Okay, I'm having regrets. This is a really deep black. 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:11.240 It will like melt off the ceiling. No, it'll be fine. This paint is designed to block 5G waves. 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.680 And while it might be marketed to folks who are trying to protect themselves 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:18.080 from the dangers of the 5G, 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.720 when we tried it over a year ago, we found that not only did the EMF 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:28.160 blocking functionality work, it worked surprisingly well, which got us thinking, 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.600 if this paint can keep outside signals from penetrating our box, 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:36.080 could it also keep outside signals from penetrating an apartment, 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:39.160 eliminating interference from pesky neighbors? 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:42.320 Well, you may remember from our too much Wi-Fi video 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.880 that having even its view as six people broadcasting on the same frequency around you 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.920 can noticeably degrade your wireless internet. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.840 Is this the solution? There's only one way to test. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.880 Hey, who wants me to paint their house black? 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.480 Okay, I probably should have seen that one coming. Wait, I know someone with a weak backbone 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.440 who can't tell me no. Man, I'm stumped. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:10.560 Our sponsor ASUS sent over their new Wi-Fi 7 routers 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.200 for us to run before and after we treat his apartment. 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:24.680 Hey there, Elijah. I'm here to paint your walls black and tear down your bookshelves. 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.880 No, please don't. All the intro. 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.640 Let's begin with a quick recap of how this paint even works. 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.760 RF-IE50 has a very high concentration of graphite, 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.280 which after applying and drying, helps to block almost all of the RF frequencies 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.400 that you would find in a typical home. Warmore, the brand of paint that we're using today, 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.080 graciously sent us all of the paint, which is good, 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:57.560 because otherwise it would have cost us about $3,000 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.520 to treat this apartment, and that's without the strapping lads we'll be applying. 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:06.640 Now, Warmore has products on their site that are obviously pseudoscience snake oil nonsense, 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.840 but this isn't one of them. It actually blocks RF, 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.520 which means that you really shouldn't use it to paint a wall that sits between your router 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.760 and where you'll want to use your devices. Say, for example, this one. 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:23.800 They also say that you need to ground your walls in order for them to be up to code. 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.080 More on that later. Before we go any further, I want to make a couple of things really clear. 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:33.440 One is that while we're using products from Warmore, we do not agree with any of the claims that they make 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:39.000 about the health benefits of blocking exposure to Wi-Fi and 5G cell towers. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:43.380 Our goal is simply to reduce the signal strength of Elijah's neighbor's Wi-Fi 00:02:43.380 --> 00:02:46.880 to try to improve the Wi-Fi performance within his apartment. 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:50.640 Number two is that we know that by not treating the Windows and the floor, 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:54.240 we are not going to be creating a Faraday cage-like environment here, 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.200 and there's going to be a lot of leakage. We just want to see if it helps at all. 00:02:58.200 --> 00:03:03.480 For science! Before we can do any of that, Elijah needs to choose one of the two routers 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:08.120 that ASUS sent over. The RT-BE88U, which looks more like your typical router, 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.200 but has a whopping eight LAN ports, with four of them being two and a half gig 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:17.640 for fast connections between your wired devices, not to mention an SFP plus port for 10 gig. 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:21.720 It's kind of overkill. Yeah. Speaking of overkill, 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:26.320 the other option is the ROG Raptor GT-BE98 Pro. 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:29.360 It has few reports, but it does have dual 10 gig connections, 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.900 not to mention this delightful box. 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:37.440 Realistically, we know which one you're choosing, so you can put that one down. 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.260 But both of them feature blazing fast Wi-Fi seven speeds 00:03:42.260 --> 00:03:45.520 and multi-link operation or MLO, 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:51.100 which allows multiple bands to be used at the same time for some truly shocking speeds. 00:03:51.140 --> 00:03:54.980 This thing is the most extra Wi-Fi router 00:03:54.980 --> 00:04:00.100 that I've ever seen. Holy cow. Oh, and it has four, two and a half gig ports too, 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:04.060 on top of the 10 giggers. Nice. How much is this thing worth? 00:04:04.060 --> 00:04:07.300 Would you like to know? No, it's probably better not to. Okay. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:11.540 Dude, this thing looks like a Wraith King crown on your freaking shelf. 00:04:12.740 --> 00:04:16.060 And you gotta know ASUS knows they're doing it at this point. 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:19.420 Routers don't have to look like that. Anyway, once this fires up, 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:23.140 we're gonna use this RF Explorer Pro to get some before measurements 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:27.900 so that we have a baseline to compare against. This thing is really cool, but I haven't used it yet. 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:31.940 So it's gonna be a bit of an adventure. Alex gave me about a 30 second crash course on it, 00:04:31.940 --> 00:04:35.480 so I'm basically an expert, but we'll be able to see all the DB levels 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:39.780 from wherever we measure, as well as all the channels and even the spectrum waterfall view 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:45.580 so we can see activity on the network. Cool. It's not really the activity that we're most worried about. 00:04:45.580 --> 00:04:51.220 We're mostly worried about the sheer number of access points that are surrounding Elijah's space. 00:04:51.220 --> 00:04:55.220 And this will be able to tell us that as well. Polluting his blood with their RF. 00:04:55.220 --> 00:04:58.620 Yeah. Nambrisky 5G. I just want my 5G. 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:04.540 Dude, this is wild. I was like, no way there's this many devices 00:05:04.540 --> 00:05:07.460 broadcasting near you. And then I was like, yo. 00:05:08.780 --> 00:05:14.060 Yep. If everyone's using their ISP router, they're probably by default broadcasting 2.4 and 5 gig 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:17.300 just at full power already. This thing's got a ton of cool modes. 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:22.100 There's this power meter where you can just see the exact power that's being broadcast 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:26.020 on a particular frequency. There's the spectrum analyzer mode with a waterfall view 00:05:26.020 --> 00:05:29.020 so you can see activity over time. This is super cool, by the way. 00:05:29.020 --> 00:05:33.100 I set the range a little bit wider than 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi. 00:05:33.100 --> 00:05:36.100 You can see it right there. Oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah. 00:05:36.100 --> 00:05:40.300 And you can even set it up with this trippy 3D view of all the activity that's around us. 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:44.100 But the one I'm most interested in for our purposes is Wi-Fi analyzer. 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:47.100 This shows us how much Wi-Fi pollution is around us, 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:51.380 potentially gunking up your signal, making your router wait its turn. 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:54.940 So rather than do our before test the way that I had proposed before, 00:05:54.940 --> 00:05:58.500 what I wanna do is turn off your router, 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:01.740 measure a baseline, then we paint everything 00:06:01.740 --> 00:06:05.340 and we measure the baseline again. Then we can do a quick speed test or something like that 00:06:05.340 --> 00:06:08.540 and make sure you're getting good performance. Nice. 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:11.940 I just wanna see if the paint works. Okay. Okay, so let's find a few key points. 00:06:11.940 --> 00:06:15.940 I'm thinking in bed, on the couch and the kitchen. 00:06:15.940 --> 00:06:19.380 Sure. Oh, you don't wanna get in bed with me. Well, not yet. 00:06:19.380 --> 00:06:22.940 I was gonna propose in the bathroom because that's gonna be a really tight space 00:06:22.940 --> 00:06:27.740 surrounded by a neighbor right away and we can paint the roof and the wall there. 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:30.380 And also because of the importance of, you know. 00:06:31.820 --> 00:06:32.660 The bathroom. 00:06:34.940 --> 00:06:38.900 Yeah, I don't wanna know what you're doing there on your Wi-Fi. 00:06:38.900 --> 00:06:42.820 Stop. And we're done. 00:06:42.820 --> 00:06:45.940 With that out of the way, we can get to painting. 00:06:45.940 --> 00:06:51.040 Nice. Over there. I mean, I know you weren't playing dance games. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.280 What's that supposed to mean? Nothing. What the heck is that supposed to mean? 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:58.280 Nothing. That you obviously haven't been playing dance games. 00:06:58.280 --> 00:07:02.680 Had you considered maybe like doing a good job of this? 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.840 What? The patches and the wall. Those were there before I got the place. 00:07:06.840 --> 00:07:10.840 Do you have sandpaper at least? Like can we? No, it'll be fine. Cause we're gonna put the TV back anyways. 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:14.440 It'll just cover it in the end. I'm not worried about it. We're painting. 00:07:14.440 --> 00:07:17.600 And? And it's costing thousands of dollars. 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:23.760 Correct. So you take four seconds and sand it with sandpaper. 00:07:23.760 --> 00:07:27.560 I don't have sandpaper. Timber! 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.480 Please, please kill me so I get the workers cop. 00:07:31.960 --> 00:07:35.240 Are you the Star Wars kid? Yes. 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:43.200 See, the graphite in the paint can pick up and hold onto a charge for low frequency electrical fields 00:07:43.200 --> 00:07:49.160 like from the wires in your walls. So by grounding it, we give that buildup somewhere to go. 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.440 So if we didn't ground it, does that mean my would have electric walls 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:56.120 to like electrocute people? Why would you want to do that? I don't know. 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.760 Someone like breaks in, just like, shh. Wow, good timing for that siren. 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:03.600 Okay, as cool as that would be though, no, it would not turn your house 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.540 into a home alone style trap. The issue is that if it's left ungrounded, 00:08:07.540 --> 00:08:10.880 it can pick up some of the frequencies that we're trying to block. 00:08:10.880 --> 00:08:14.280 And because radio waves and electricity can make electrons wiggle, 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:20.000 that wiggling can actually emit radio waves making the walls almost like a low powered antenna. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.200 So that would defeat the whole purpose of applying this paint. 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:26.200 All right. This is GSX-50 tape, 00:08:26.200 --> 00:08:29.940 and this is a GW grounding plate, also made by Warmore. 00:08:29.940 --> 00:08:34.120 Judging by the pictures on their site, it seems like one strip running the length of the wall 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:39.080 is enough to keep it grounded. So I guess let's do it. 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.320 You're grounded. You know, there's speaker wire 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.440 that you can run like this too, hey? Oh yeah. For like surrounds, so then you paint over it, 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.680 it's super cool. It's called a ghost wire or something. Yeah, I wanna do a video on it at some point. 00:08:50.680 --> 00:08:53.680 I have not looked at the instructions for any of this. Do you have any idea what we're doing? 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:57.220 Yeah, so we also need to have one piece of tape that goes vertical. What? 00:08:57.220 --> 00:09:02.320 And then it looks like this actually goes over top of the tape. So the only thing that seems to matter 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.760 is that every surface that's painted 00:09:06.040 --> 00:09:12.240 is connected to the tape in some way. So you can go up the wall if you need to hit the ceiling. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.720 I see, so we could just run it all along the baseboards, it seems. 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.320 Yes. Okay, then let's do it that way. Bro couldn't figure out how to open sandpaper. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.720 Sorry, my bad. And keeps calling it sanding paper. How do you do it? 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:27.040 Because it's bothering you. No, that's not why you do it. You do it because you don't know what it's called. 00:09:27.040 --> 00:09:29.560 And then you continue doing it because it's bothering you. 00:09:30.880 --> 00:09:34.820 Ah! That's what smooth is. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.960 Oh. Nice, right? It looks about the same. No, it doesn't. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.420 I really hope that doesn't bust open. Please pour the paint. Pour the paint, Elijah. 00:09:46.420 --> 00:09:48.080 Pour the paint. Pour the paint. 00:09:49.760 --> 00:09:53.520 Oh, God. I mean, look, it's not like we can make this carpet any worse. 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:55.920 Man, they really don't want kids to get into this. 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:02.520 Or Elijah. Oh my gosh! I'm like cutting up my hand. 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:07.160 That was a nice sound. That was a nice sound. 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:09.920 Okay, I'm having regrets now. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.960 Oh, no, I touched it already. Nice. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.520 Well, I can just like... No. Oh my God. 00:10:18.520 --> 00:10:23.080 I mean, it's paint, you know. Yeah, but we're home, we're so cooked. It's supposed to turn things the color it is. 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:26.880 I was really tempted to like it. I can't believe you're painting this entire place black. 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:31.600 Thanks, ASUS. Well, full credit to them for coverage here. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:36.840 This is actually comical. Dude, this is a really deep black. 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:41.320 Like this is black paint. Like it's nice and thick, but it spreads. 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.600 The coverage is really good. Like this is some really nice paint. 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:48.440 I like it. What are you doing? I'm painting! Do you see what I'm doing? 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.840 Does it look like what you're doing? Okay, I'll stop. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.640 Okay, no, hold on. No, no, you can paint, but just jeez. 00:10:55.640 --> 00:10:59.280 What's so bad about it? You saw what he was doing, right? 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:02.840 Glenn, do you paint? I don't. Okay, but can you tell that was wrong? 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:06.200 Why was it wrong? First of all, you hold it like a pencil. 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:10.600 Okay, not like a, whatever that was. 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:13.600 Okay, yeah, not like a spoon. I mean, don't hold a spoon like that either. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.960 What are you, a bohemian? Okay, the point is you hold it like a pencil, 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.720 you come down on it, so you have more control. You don't hold it up here. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.840 No control, lots of control, okay? 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.080 And then you use the angle of the brush, okay? 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.320 So the bulk of the paint goes on here, 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:36.960 and that's your fine line. So you drag it across the very, very, very bottom, 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.880 like that. Okay. And then you're doing a straight line like that. 00:11:45.640 --> 00:11:50.880 What? What, why are you judging me? Dude, you're lucky this wall is gonna be behind your TV, 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:55.080 and we're hiring professionals for the rest of it, because that is the most ass paint job 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:59.320 that I have ever seen. Like, it's bad and you should feel bad. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.360 Elijah, I actually do need a taller stool. 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.600 I can't really reach the ceiling. What? 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.720 I can't cut in. Wait, you don't have to cut in, because we're painting the ceiling as well. 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.480 Oh, God, I forgot that. Yeah. 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.240 Oh, that's horrible. Yeah. This is gonna be so oppressive. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.640 Oh, okay, well the other wall isn't gonna be... 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:23.720 What, this one's gonna be black. No, that's not an exterior wall. 00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:31.600 Oh. Elijah, did you check if this... 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:38.040 What? This ceiling has not been painted before. Correct. 00:12:38.040 --> 00:12:41.360 So, no, we can't get this on the ceiling. Yeah, we can. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.880 No, we can't, this is a latex-based paint. It's a water-based paint. 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:49.400 Right, that's what I just said. This is a latex water-based paint. 00:12:49.400 --> 00:12:52.800 Yeah. This is water-soluble. 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.440 Hmm. It will like melt off the ceiling. 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.560 Did the painters, like that's what it mentioned that? Well, they said they might have to treat it. 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:04.960 It's okay, they'll treat it after. What, no, they can't. 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:10.040 Stop it. It will melt off the ceiling if we paint it with this. 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:13.400 That's kind of cool. Okay, sorry, let's... 00:13:13.400 --> 00:13:17.720 Okay, well then be careful. Okay, so can I have a chair then? 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:22.200 We've come full circle. I don't think that's stable, bro. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.360 Only one way to find out. You may want to move that paint. 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.040 I worry less about me and more about the bucket of paint that's going to spill on your floor if I fall. 00:13:30.040 --> 00:13:31.280 Linus at a normal height. 00:13:34.520 --> 00:13:47.200 Look at me, look at me, look at me. I think we're basically done for today though. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.800 That took too long. Is this where we have the professionals come in and actually paint your place? 00:13:50.800 --> 00:13:54.800 Yes, they're going to do two coats. They're going to come back over and try to get it back to this white after. 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:58.680 This is a paint primer product. Yes. And here they are. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.480 Man, this apartment is so dark now. 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.320 The funny part is Taylor and I actually kind of like the way the walls look. 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.600 We might just have to go over with like a regular a-shell black because as you can see, 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:22.520 if I rub my hands a little bit on it, there's the tiniest bit of sparkle on my fingers 00:14:22.520 --> 00:14:26.600 from the actual graphite that's in the wall, almost if like a pencil was shaded. 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:30.160 So if we bump or move anything against it, we're going to want to make sure we protect it 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:34.880 with a proper egg shell coat. One thing we don't like though is the ceiling. 00:14:34.880 --> 00:14:40.840 I'm not really sure if there was a miscommunication or what happened, but they did not apply any sort of primer 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:45.160 or protective coating to the ceiling before spraying the RF paint on it. 00:14:45.160 --> 00:14:48.360 So my ceiling is falling apart now, 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:53.080 which sucks and we are working on a resolution with this, but it actually hasn't stopped the paint 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:57.080 from clearly working. When I was at the office, I texted my wife 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:01.360 to send some photos to me because I wanted to see what it looked like once it was blacked out, 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:06.040 only for her to respond to me on Facebook Messenger because she was saying her messages, 00:15:06.040 --> 00:15:09.160 the photos weren't actually sending over text. 00:15:09.160 --> 00:15:14.040 They were failing. That's because she was still trying to use a cellular connection to send those photos. 00:15:14.040 --> 00:15:17.320 Some things still work such as texting and phone calls, 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.520 but anything that was a large file, loading a YouTube video, sending a photo 00:15:21.520 --> 00:15:25.040 or trying to FaceTime over that cellular connection, 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:28.800 it was not a good experience. Thankfully though, the ASUS router has been picking up 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:33.080 the slack whenever we've needed to send like a large video file or a group of photos 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.160 or even FaceTime family. So at least I got that going. 00:15:36.160 --> 00:15:39.240 Just because the router's fine though, doesn't mean I don't need to fix the issue 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:42.600 with cell reception. So I actually reached out to our friends over at Waveform 00:15:42.680 --> 00:15:47.600 and they sent me the CellFi Go G41 smart signal booster. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:52.040 These are actually the same guys who helped at Linus's house when he needed to get better cell service. 00:15:52.040 --> 00:15:56.240 It's just a little antenna mounted on my balcony towards a cell tower somewhere, 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:01.680 which thankfully Marcus actually sent me over a map of the area, so I know which direction to point this antenna in. 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:05.600 Then I get to do my favorite thing, drill a hole through the wall, run a cable through to their signal booster, 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.000 which is the indoor antenna that'll sit inside mounted. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:13.200 That way my wife can, you know, send more cat photos over text. 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.480 We're actually not gonna set that up right now and in fact, I need to make sure my router 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.720 is not broadcasting anything because if you remember in our before tests, 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:24.200 we just were analyzing our neighbor's Wi-Fi to see if it was interfering with ours. 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:28.600 So we're gonna set up our analyzer in the exact same spots. We're gonna take our measurements again 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:33.000 and then we'll go back to the office and give Linus the results. Okay, how'd it go? 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.080 Why don't we start with the ceiling? It's falling apart. Do you wanna see the pictures? 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.680 I already know what it's gonna look like. Remember, I professionally painted for a couple of years. 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:45.200 It's worse than you can imagine. I can imagine a lot. 00:16:46.280 --> 00:16:49.960 If you paint a stipple ceiling with water-based paint, 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.880 it disintegrates, which I warned Elijah about. So really this is on him. 00:16:53.880 --> 00:16:58.280 To be fair, the contractor said, well, probably need to spray this with something or prime it. 00:16:58.280 --> 00:17:02.480 I was like, okay, we're now in talks about getting it scraped because... 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.160 Yeah, you have to. Yeah. 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.480 This is not my fault. No, it's not. I brushed it a little bit and was like, 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.560 oh shoot, this isn't coated. And I told him, roll the footage. 00:17:15.560 --> 00:17:19.120 This is what... And it cut the footage. No, no, roll the footage. 00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:22.560 This is not on me. This is water-soluble. 00:17:22.560 --> 00:17:28.200 It will melt off the ceiling. Yeah, it's the entire apartment. 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.840 That's a disaster, dude. It's pretty bad. That's stipple ceiling for you. 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:35.200 It was the worst home decor trend of all time. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:38.520 They were asking me, they're like, well, do you wanna re-scraper it or do you wanna re-texture it again? 00:17:38.520 --> 00:17:42.720 I was like, well, let's just scrape it now. Oh, re-texturing it. 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.040 They'd have to scrape it to re-texture it anyway. That's why I was like, let's just scrape it. 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:49.360 Yeah, and then they would have to put an oil-based coating on. 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:53.320 Then they would have to put the RF blocking stuff on again. Then they'd have to paint it again. 00:17:53.320 --> 00:17:56.880 It'd be like a six-step process. Yeah, we're just getting it scraped. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.960 Cool. But I want you to guess though, did it have any effect? 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.760 And if you think it had an effect, what kind of percentage do you think we saw? 00:18:04.760 --> 00:18:09.240 Well, you already spoiled that with the coating on the walls, Taylor couldn't send M&S messages anymore, 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:13.680 right? Yeah, photos. That's crazy. She could still text, she could still take phone calls, 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:17.440 but actual large chunks of data could not go through. Interesting. 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.840 Yes. As for the Wi-Fi access points around you, 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:25.360 I'm gonna guess 15 dB. 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:30.160 Okay, I have it in percentage, not dB. It's not quite that much though. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.560 Okay, well just. If you scroll down though, that's where it's on the script. I need to read it. 00:18:33.560 --> 00:18:37.040 Oh, I see. There you go. What? 00:18:37.040 --> 00:18:41.600 So sadly on the five gigahertz spectrum, we actually saw no improvement, 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:45.600 maybe one to 2%. Oh, that would be within margin of error anyway. 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:49.120 That's kind of what I thought. But on the 2.4 spectrum, 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:54.560 we saw a 20% improvement in the bathroom, and a 27% improvement in the living room, 00:18:54.560 --> 00:18:58.200 and then the kitchen was somewhere in between that. That's actually not bad. 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.800 Yeah. And is that just in the attenuation of the nearby signals? 00:19:01.800 --> 00:19:04.760 Yep. Well, that's awesome because 2.4 gigahertz 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:07.800 is the problematic one. 100%. That's the one that you're stuck using 00:19:07.800 --> 00:19:12.120 for your IOT devices and stuff like that, and they'll just, they'll be flaky. 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:15.320 And you won't realize while they're flaky. They're flaky because all your neighbors 00:19:15.320 --> 00:19:20.320 have all of their crap broadcasting on it. I mean, I, I wouldn't spend this kind of money on it. 00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:23.360 It wasn't groundbreaking, but again, like you said, it was the walls and ceiling. 00:19:23.360 --> 00:19:26.520 The price was right. Yeah, for free, for me. 00:19:26.520 --> 00:19:30.160 Right, so. But I think this is actually an example 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.120 if we had gone all the way and on the floor, I have more neighbors below me. 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.680 You're already here first. Elijah wanted to go all the way. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:42.600 Below me. If we had painted the actual floor, 00:19:42.600 --> 00:19:46.640 we could have probably seen even more of an improvement. Right, cause there's a lot of people below you. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.760 Yeah. And another thing we noticed with both measuring the 2.4 00:19:49.760 --> 00:19:53.280 and the five gigahertz spectrum is they appeared more stable. 00:19:53.280 --> 00:19:57.600 There wasn't crazy, you know, cliffs and valleys on each of the channels. 00:19:57.600 --> 00:20:02.320 Interesting. I had one other note, which was, I guarantee there was more people home that day. 00:20:02.320 --> 00:20:06.880 I don't know. Really? Because we filmed the after results on boxing day 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.400 and we filmed our before results on a typical work day. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:14.640 And judging by my parking lot, there was definitely more people home. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.960 Oh, well that's cool. So what that means is that, A, 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:23.520 we definitely got a good result. And B, our good result is probably more betterer. 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:28.760 Yeah. Than what we thought. Yeah, exactly. So I wouldn't recommend spending this kind of money 00:20:28.760 --> 00:20:31.920 for this outcome. But at the price you paid, 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:36.760 I mean, it seems like a pretty clear upgrade. Yeah, it was sick. And okay, as for the ASUS router. 00:20:36.760 --> 00:20:40.880 The ASUS router was fine. And I think that would probably be a better investment 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:46.400 is like actually upgrading your network inside, whether it's a mesh system or wiring everything. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:52.120 Well, realistically, the bigger one is probably gonna be getting a router and devices 00:20:52.120 --> 00:20:55.600 that support six gigahertz. Yeah. Especially if you're in an apartment 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:58.600 where the range is not gonna be as important 00:20:58.600 --> 00:21:02.440 as using a frequency that no one else is using. And for the kind of money you would spend 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:07.000 on a home renovation like this, you could literally buy yourself a new router, 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.200 buy your, you and your whole family new phones that all support six gigahertz. 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.720 I didn't even think about that. Right? But you could, yeah. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:17.920 But that wasn't the point of our exercise here. No, yeah. 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:22.660 The point of our exercise was, hey, does this stuff that worked on a small scale, 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:26.320 painting a box, actually scale up to an entire home? 00:21:26.320 --> 00:21:29.160 And the answer is less effectively. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.480 But it's clearly not entirely snake oil. 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:37.720 Yeah, which is actually kind of cool. Yeah, very cool. 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.400 Yeah. If you guys enjoyed this video, be sure to tell a friend about it. 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.400 It was a big undertaking getting contractors out 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.600 to paint Elijah's house. Contractors who did a great job.