okay I'm having regrets now this is a really deep black it will like melt off
the ceiling no it'll be fine this paint
is designed to block 5G waves and while
it might be marketed to folks who are trying to protect themselves from the
dangers of the 5G when we tried it over a year ago we
found that not only did the EMF blocking functionality work it worked
surprisingly well which got us thinking if this paint can keep outside signals
from penetrating our box could it also keep outside signals from penetrating an
apartment eliminating interference from pesky neighbors well you may remember
from our too much Wi-Fi video that having even as few as six people
broadcasting on the same frequency around you can noticeably degrade your
wireless internet is this the solution
there's only one way to test hey who wants me to paint their house
black okay I probably should have seen that one coming
wait I know someone with a weak backbone who can't tell me
no man I'm stoked our sponsor Asus sent
over their new Wi-Fi 7 routers for us to run before and after we treat his
apartment hey there Elijah I'm here to paint your balls black and teir down
your book shells no please don't all the intro
let's begin with a quick recap of how this paint even works RF i50 has a very
high concentration of graphite which after applying and drying helps to block
almost all of the RF frequencies that you would find in a typical home War
more the brand of paint that we're using today graciously sent us all of the
paint which is good because otherwise it
would have cost us about $3,000 to treat this apartment and that's without the
strapping Lads will be applying now warm more has products on their site that are
obviously pseudo science snake oil nonsense but this isn't one of them it
actually blocks RF which means that you really shouldn't use it to paint a wall
that sits between your router and where you'll want to use your devices say for
example this one they also say that you need to ground your walls in order for
them to be up to code um more on that later before we go any further I want to
make a couple of things really clear one is that while we're using product from
warm more we do not agree with any of the claims that they make about the
health benefits of blocking exposure to Wi-Fi and 5G cell towers our goal is
simply to reduce the signal strength of Elijah's neighbor's Wi-Fi to try to
improve the Wi-Fi performance within his apartment number two is that we know
that by not treating the Windows and the floor we are not going to be creating a
faay cage like environment here and there's going to be a lot of leakage we
just want to see if it helps at all for science before we can do any of that
Elijah needs to choose one of the two routers that Asus sent over the rtb 88u
which looks more like your typical router but has a whopping eight land
ports with two of them being 2 and 1/2 gig for fast connections between your
wir devices not to mention an SFP Plus Port for 10
gig kind of Overkill yeah speaking of
Overkill the other option is the r Raptor GTB 98 Pro it has fewer ports but
it does have dual 10 gig connections not to mention this delightful
box realistically we know which one you're choosing so you can put that one
down but both of them feature blazing fast Wi-Fi 7speeds and multi-link
operation or mllo which allows multiple bands to be used at the same time for
some truly shocking speeds this thing is
the most extra Wi-Fi router that I've ever seen holy cow oh and it has four 2
and 1/2 gig ports twoo on top of the 10 giggers nice how much is this thing
worth would you like to know no it's probably better not to okay dude this
thing looks like a wraith king crown on your freaking
shelf and you got to know Asus knows they're doing it at this point routers
don't have to look like that anyway once this fires up we're going to use this RF
Explorer Pro to get some before measurements so that we have a baseline
to compare games this thing is really cool but I haven't used it yet so it's
going to be a bit of an adventure Alex gave me about a 30second crash course on
it so I'm basically an expert but we will be able to see all the DB levels
from wherever we measure as well as all the channels and even the Spectrum
waterfall view so we can see activity on the network okay cool it's not really
the activity that we're most worried about we are mostly worried about the
sheer number of access points that are surrounding Elijah's space mhm and this
will be able to tell us that as well polluting his blood with their RF yeah
then presky 5G I just want my 5G
dude this is wild I was like no way
there's this many devices broadcasting near you and then I was like
yo yep if everyone's using their ISP router they're probably by default
broadcasting 2.4 and 5 gig just at full power already this thing's got a ton of
cool modes there's this power meter where you can just see the exact power
that's being broadcast on a particular frequency there's the Spectrum analyzer
mode with a waterfall view so you can see activity over time this is super
cool by the way I set the rain a little bit wider than 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi you can see
it right there oh that's kind of cool yeah and you can even set it up with
this trippy 3D view of all the activity that's around us but the one I'm most
interested in for our purposes is Wi-Fi analyzer this shows us how much Wi-Fi
pollution is around us potentially gunking up your signal making your
router wait its turn so rather than do
our before test the way that I had proposed before what I want to do is
turn off your router it measure a
Baseline then we paint everything and we measure the Baseline again then we can
do a quick speed test or something like that and make sure you're getting good
performance nice I just want to see if the paint works okay okay so let's find
a few key points I'm thinking in bed on
the couch and the kitchen sure I was oh
you don't want to get in bed with me well not yet I was going to propose in the bathroom because that's going to be
a really tight space surrounded by a neighbor right away and we can paint the
roof and the wall there and also because
of the importance of you know the
bathroom yeah I don't want to know what you're do there on your
Wi-Fi stop and we're done with that out of the
way we can get to painting nice put it
over over there I mean I know you weren't playing Dance games what was
that supposed to mean nothing what the heck is that supposed to mean nothing
that you obviously haven't been playing Dance games had you considered maybe
like doing a good job of this what the
patches in the wall those were there before I got the place do you have
sandpaper at least like can we no it'll be fine cuz we're going to put the TV
back anyways it'll just cover it in the end it's I'm not worried about it we're
painting and and it's costing thousands
of dollars correct so you take 4 seconds
and sand it with sandpaper I don't have
sandpaper Timber no please please kill me so I can
the workers comp are you the Star Wars
kid see the graphite in the paint can pick up and hold on to a charge from
lowf frequency electrical Fields like from the wires in your walls so by
grounding it we give that buildup somewhere to go so if we didn't ground
it does that mean my would have electric walls to like electrocute people why
would you want to do that I don't know someone like breaks in just like wow
good timing for that siren okay as cool as that would be though no
it would not turn your house into a home alone style trap the issue is that if
it's left ungrounded it can pick up some of the frequencies that we're trying to
block and because radio waves and electricity can make electrons wiggle
that wiggling can actually emit radio waves making the walls almost like a low
powered antenna so that would defeat the whole purpose of applying this paint all
right this is GSX 50 tape and this is a
GW grounding plate also made by warmart judging by the pictures on their site it
seems like one strip running the length of the wall is enough to keep it
grounded so I guess let's do it you're
grounded you know there's speaker wire that you can run like this too hey oh
yeah for like surrounds and then you paint over it it's super cool it's
called like ghost wire or something yeah I want to do a video on it at some point
I have not looked at the instructions for any of this do you have any idea what we're doing yeah so we also need to
have one piece of tape that goes vertical what and then it looks like
this actually goes over top of the tape so the only thing that seems to matter
is that every surface that's painted is connected to the tape in some
way yeah so you can go up the wall if you need to hit the ceiling M I see so
we could just run it all along the baseboards it seems yes okay then let's
do it that way bro couldn't figure out how to open sandpaper sorry my bad and
keeps calling it sanding paper I do it 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 and then you continue doing it it's bothering me
that's what smooth is oh nice right yeah it looks about the
same no it uh I really hope that doesn't bust
open please pour the paint pour the paint Elijah pour the paint pour the
paint oh God I mean look it's not like we can make this carpet any worse man
they really don't want kids to get into
this or Elijah oh my God
like cutting up my
hand that was a nice sound that was a nice
sound okay I'm having regrets
now H oh no I touched it already nice
well I can just like no oh my God I mean
it's paint you know yeah but we're we're so cooked it's supposed to turn things
to the color it is I was really tempted I can't believe you're painting this
entire Place black thanks Asus well full credit to them for
coverage here this is actually comical
dude this is a really deep black like this is black paint like it's nice and
thick but it but it spreads the coverage is really good like this is this is some
really nice paint I like it what are you doing I'm painting do you see what I'm
doing does it look like what you're doing okay I'll stop okay no hold on no
no you can paint but just jeez what's so
bad about it you saw what he was doing right Lyn do you paint I don't okay but
can you tell that was wrong why was it wrong first of all you hold it like a
pencil okay okay not like
a whatever that was okay yeah not like a spoon I mean don't hold a spoon like
that either what do you hear Bohemian okay the point is you hold it like a
pencil you come down on it so you have more control you don't hold it up here
okay no control lots of control okay and
then you use the angle of the brush okay so the bulk of the paint goes
on here here okay and that's your fine line so you drag
it across the very very very bottom like
that okay and then Tak a straight line like
that what what why are you judging me
dude you're lucky this wall is going to be behind your TV and we're hiring Professionals for the rest of it because
that is the most ass paint job that I have ever seen like it's bad and you
should feel bad Elijah I actually do
need a taller stool I can't really reach the
ceiling I can't cut in well you don't have to cut in cuz we're painting the
ceiling as well oh God I forgot that
yeah oh that's horrible yeah this is going to be so oppressive
oh okay well the other wall isn't going to be what this one's going to be black
no that's not an exterior wall
oh a li did you check if
this what this ceiling has not been painted before correct so no we can't
get this on the ceiling yeah we can no we can't this is a latex based paint
it's a water-based paint right that's what I just said this is a latex
water-based paint yeah this is water
soluble H it will like melt off the
ceiling did the painters like mention
that well said they might have to treat it it's okay they'll treat it after what
no they can't stop it I it will melt off
the ceiling if we paint it with this it's kind of cool okay sorry let's okay
well then be careful okay so can I have a chair then we've come full
circle I don't think that's staple bro only one way to find out God you may
want to move that paint I'd worry less about me and more about the bucket of
paint that's going to spill on your floor if I fall line is at a normal
height wow I think we're basically done
for today though that took too long is this where we have the professionals
come in and actually paint your place 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 this is a paint primer product yes and here
they are
man this apartment is so dark now the funny part is Taylor and I actually kind
of like the way the walls look we might just have to go over with like a regular
a shell black because as you can see if I rub my hand a little bit on it there's
the tiniest bit of Sparkle on my fingers from the actual graphite that's in the
wall almost if like a pencil was shaded so if we bump or move anything against
it we're we're going to want to make sure we protect it with a proper eggshell coat one thing we don't like
though is the ceiling I'm not really sure if there was a miscommunication or
what happened but they did not apply any sort of primer or protective coating to
the ceiling before spraying the RF paint on it so uh my ceiling is falling apart
now which sucks and we are working on a resolution with this but it actually
hasn't stopped the paint from clearly working when I was at the office I
texted my wife to send some photos to me cuz I wanted to see what it looked like
once it was blacked out only for her to respond to me on Facebook Messenger
because she was saying her messages the photos weren't actually sending over
text they were failing that's because she was still trying to use a cellular
connection to send those photos some things still work such as texting and
phone calls but anything that was a large file loading a YouTube video
sending a photo or trying to FaceTime over that Cellular Connection it was not
a good experience thankfully though the ASUS router has been picking up the
black whenever we've needed to send like a large video file or a group of photos
or even FaceTime family so at least I got that going just because the router's
fine though doesn't mean I don't need to fix the issue with cell reception so I
actually reached out to our friends over at way form and they sent me the Celli
go g41 smart signal booster these are
actually the same guys who helped at Linus's house when he needed to get better cell service it's just a little
antenna mounted on my balcony towards a cell tower somewhere which thankfully
Marcus actually sent me over a map of the area so I know which direction to
point this antenna in then I get to do my favorite thing drill a hole through the wall run a cable through to their
signal booster which is the indoor antenna that'll sit inside mounted that
way my wife can you know send more cat photos over text we're actually not
going to set that up right now and in fact I need to make sure my router is not broadcasting anything because if you
remember in our before tests we just were analyzing our neighbor Wi-Fi to see
if it was interfering with ours so we're going to set up our analyzer in the
exact same spots we're going to take our measurements again and then we'll go go
back to the office and give lonus the results okay how'd it go why don't we
start with the ceiling it's falling apart do you want to see the
pictures I already know what it's going to look like remember I professionally
painted for a couple of years it's worse than you can imagine I can imagine a
lot if you paint a stipple ceiling with water-based paint it disintegrates which
I warned Elijah about so really this is on him to be fair the contractor said
we'll probably need to spray this with something or prime it I was like okay
we're now in talks about getting it scraped cuz yeah you have to
yeah this is not my fault no it's not I
brushed it a little bit and was like oh shoot this isn't coated and I told him
file roll the footage this is Ed cut the
footage no no roll the footage this is not on me this is water soluble it will
like melt off the ceiling yeah it's it's the
entire apartment that's a disaster dude
it's pretty bad that's stipple ceiling for you yeah it was the worst home decor
trend of all time they were asking me they're like well do you want to Res scrap it or do you want to retexture it
again I was like well let's just scrape it now oh retexturing it they'd have to
scrape it to retexture it anyway that's why I was like let's just scrape it what do you mean and then they would have to
put an oilbased coating on then they would have to put the RF blocking stuff
on again then they'd have to paint it again it' be like a six-step process
yeah we're just getting it scraped cool but I want you to guess though did it
have any effect and if you think it had an effect what kind of percentage do you
think we saw well you already spoiled that with the coding on the walls Taylor
couldn't send MMS messages anymore right yeah
photos text she could still take phone calls but actual large chunks of data
could not go through interesting yes as
for the the Wi-Fi access points around you I'm going to guess 15 DB okay I have
it in percentage not DB it's not quite that much though okay well just if you
scroll down though that's where it's on the script I need to read it oh I
see what so sadly on the 5 GHz Spectrum
we actually saw no improvement maybe 1
to 2% oh that would be within margin of error anyway that's kind of what I
thought but on the 2.4 Spectrum we saw a
20% Improvement in the bathroom and a 27% Improvement in the living room and
then the kitchen was somewhere in between that that's actually not bad
yeah and is that just in the attenuation of the nearby signals yep well that's
awesome because 2.4 GHz is the problematic one 100% that's the one that
you're stuck using for your iot devices and stuff like that and they'll just
they'll be flaky and you won't realize while they're flaky they're flaky
because all your neighbors have all of their crap broadcasting on I mean I I I
wouldn't spend this kind of money on it it wasn't groundbreaking but again like
you said it was the walls and ceiling the price was right yeah I did for free
for me right so but I think I think this
is actually an example if we had gone all the way and on the floor I have more
neighbors below me you heard it here first Elijah wanted to go all the way
below me right if we had painted the
actual floor we could have probably seen even more of an improvement right cuz
there's a lot of people below you yeah and another thing we noticed with both
measuring the 2.4 and the 5 GHz spectrum is they appeared more stable there
wasn't crazy you know Cliffs and valleys on each of the channels interesting I
had one other note which was I guarantee there was more people home that day I
don't know really yeah because we filmed the after results on boxing day and we
filmed our before results on a typical workday and judging by my parking lot
there was definitely more people home oh well that's cool so what that means is
that a we definitely got a good result
and B our good result is probably more better yeah than what we thought yeah
exactly so I wouldn't recommend spending this kind of money for this outcome but
at the price you paid I mean it seems like a pretty clear upgrade yeah it was
sick and okay as for the ASUS router the isus router was fine and I think that
would probably be a better investment is like actually upgrading your network
inside whether it's a mesh system or wiring everything well realistically the
bigger one is probably going to be getting a router and devices that
support 6 GHz yeah especially if you're in an apartment where the range is not
going to be as important as using a frequency that no one else is using and
for the kind of money you would spend on a home renovation like this you could
literally buy yourself a new router buy your you and your whole family new
phones that all support 6 GHz I didn't even think about that right but you
could yeah but that wasn't the point of our exercise here the point of our
exercise was hey does this stuff that worked on a small scale painting a box
actually scale up to an entire home and the answer is less effective
yeah but it's clearly not entirely snake
oil yeah which is actually kind of cool
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