do you guys sell anything else i was thinking of getting some kind of screen
that could block my tv
when i'm trying to watch it now i know we're known for buying some
of the craziest stupidest things simply
because we can but this time
we didn't buy the stupid thing because we wanted to use it instead we bought it
because its stupidity is simply so unfathomable that we had to show it to
you guys this is a faraday cage which is meant to
protect you from the harmful
radio waves that you might encounter from your home wireless access point
but wait am i serious right now
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Jake did we really have to buy two of them i mean
wouldn't wouldn't one make the point like two different styles do we have to
evaluate you know which one which one is the better quality ridiculous thing it's
hard to know where to start with this so i'm gonna go straight back to my roots we're gonna do a classic unboxing for
you ladies and gentlemen uh this one didn't have much of a box it's just
uh it's like a a metal mesh cage okay
you've got a base you've got like a join here
um you've got like a trim piece that's kind of
looks um like spot welded on and then
you've got this is really important so because your router is intended to go
inside this cage to protect you from the harmful wifis
you've got to have this rubber grommet in here it's so a little bit of wi-fi's
are going to kind of seep out there but you need it in order to get the cables
in so that's just one of the two models that we checked out this one here this
is the smart meter guard okay
now obviously this could be used for any number of wi-fi things so you could put
for example your your smart meter in it or you could just put your router in it
if you have more of like a stand-up style router see like this one here okay
like the ax 5700 dual band it's got a problem right it's got too much wi-fi's
so you can put it in one of these and theoretically that's going to help you
out now this one has more of like a top-down
slidey-lead construction and it comes with some
documentation wi-fi routers emit rf also
called emf all day and night exposing you to the electric field i think they
mean electromagnetic field which is not the same thing
the large router guard is built to block
approximately 95 of the emf your wi-fi router emits while
still allowing you to use your router with your wireless devices
excuse me pardon you can't block 95
of the emf which is like the wi-fi's and still have it work
i mean at least i wouldn't think so let's see what the users think holy [ __ ]
i'm sorry i know i wasn't supposed to look at the price yet
i only wasted like 200 of your dollars this was 90 canadian dollars okay Jake
now hold on a second this looks like office equipment like a paper tray
do you it kind of looks like it would fit paper wait
that's why these are here isn't it is that why these are here are we going
to benchmark the hold on what is this thing called this is the tac meter wi-fi
router shield blocks up to 95 harmful waves
oh my god it's a paper holder they put a grommet in a paper holder and
i paid them 90 canadian dollars for it
i hate you Jake you did this to me hole in the middle
can accommodate four wires at same time without any problems no need to worry
about the thickness of the wires the router covers 12 by nine by four inches
and can be compatible with most routers product attributes bullet points easy to
install place the router oh my god you know what let's do it
ow it just like sliced up my finger
actually yeah we're not supposed to take the grommet out i thought it would like
just kind of give way and it didn't you have to cut it
look how thick it is in the spot where it's supposed to give way
to benchmark this real quick here
put four in at once you know four whole cables and i didn't have to worry about
the thickness at all from jeff riddout
if you buy this you've been scammed rf is not harmful this will make your wi-fi
router useless what a hater wait
oh my god Jake i figured it out
okay you know how i was saying this one is more like bespoke looking
watch this no way it's the same thing
this is the only part that they actually made
that's why it has look look look look look
they just they just cut this thing off
they did a really nice job of finishing it it's not gonna slice my finger open
so that's good i thought this one was actually like a
thing but they just made the bottom and they cut the handle off
us dollars i paid 90 us dollars for this
plus 21 shipping are these guys even
serious look at these questions and answers oh you read this so good
why put your router in a faraday cage when you can accomplish the same by
throwing the router away and wrapping your head in aluminum foil
the answer from smart meter guard the manufacturer is thanks for your question
if you wrap your head in aluminum foil then you can't use your router because you can't see thanks these are the
products we are offering the phone guard is our newest product oh my god
and we will soon have guards available for amazon alexa and other smart devices
oh my god this is a real like serious question where is the router guard
manufactured what kind of paint is used if any is this technically a faraday
cage the large router guard is made in the u.s and made of silver painted steel
yes it is a faraday cage this is this is is it painted oh it might actually
yeah this is this is definitely not painted so we got some we got some
misleading product information how is this
different from a microwave oven couldn't i put my wi-fi router in a microwave
oven smart meter guard says hello yes you
could but please don't turn your microwave oven on with the router in it okay these guys are not serious
they can't they have to be membing oh my god poor aris
it works i was very skeptical about it but my wife made me buy it so i decided
to also get an emf tester and check it out if it works results are clear it
works five stars
if this was an actual faraday cage that could block electromagnetic radiation
then it would block your wi-fi signal how can people be so scientifically
illiterate no no it is an actual faraday cage i mean that's all a faraday cage is
it's just a metal mesh like
it really it truly is um
wow there's actually a fair number of five-star reviews even from verified
purchasers roberto b who is a top contributor in the pets category
i taught physics for close to 40 years and can vouch for this product's
effectiveness it reduced the electromagnetic output
our living room kitchen and two bedrooms were still covered via wi-fi but our
remote bedroom was not just what i wanted
tech tip you can actually turn down
the gain on your router if you want less coverage
that's the thing the main reason to do it is because it can improve your
signal-to-noise ratio so it can improve the quality of the signal nearer to your
access point or it can keep your wi-fi range from extending too far if you
consider that to be a security risk but keeping the wi-fi is out of your
bloodstream is not the reason to do it that's a good one too if you have other
access points and you don't want them to have overlapping coverage zones which
can confuse your phone and stuff it shouldn't surprise me that the kind of
person who would unironically buy this would be the kind of person who could
stop using it but jprdh
still managed to surprise me one star because it doesn't work we tried this
cage and it does not reduce the signal on either of my routers returned it and
put them into a solid metal box now i can see the signal is half of what
it was now we have to try it let's get a wireless access point you
know one that offers excellent excellent
signal strength and therefore lots of wi-fi contamination in your home
um well you can't put it in yet we gotta get a control well i gotta well i wanted
to see if it can i wanted to see if it can fit you know
okay what fits well it fits look at that wow i feel safer already
let's start with our test let's first let's evaluate the product based on the
manufacturer claims that's then we'll review it oh my god this cable tie it
doesn't hold in place well enough for me to you know i don't care anymore go
ahead and cut
oh yeah we have better cable ties ltteststore.com thanks andy andy gave me
his phone and he actually found it
this is it this is the exact one from
yanghua oh my god this is so funny same
dimensions oh look they have a black version you know if that fits more your
style and your rf safe home oh but then
how could you possibly fashion this you know wonderful
bottom for andy you're a genius
35 yen 35 chinese yen that's like five us
dollars five us dollars for they charged
me 90 us dollars to establish a baseline
for our rf exposure we've gone ahead and fired up wi-fi analyzer and i'm starting
with this unprotected wi-fi access point and i'm getting on
our test network about uh
oh if i move around it kind of changes minus 31 decibels on on 5 gigahertz
now let's go here living room set we're getting
minus 61. okay one more location andy
ah give it a sec it still thinks it's the same
minus 68. okay
here we go here we go are you ready to be protected
Jake
didn't have to get too close to it you know i gotta keep a safe distance my five gigahertz
signal strength is -42 right now sure is a good thing we didn't spend extra to
have a really high quality wireless access point only to [ __ ] it for no
reason minus 68. i'm at minus 72 in the bedroom Jake the
speed test has really been what separated the mesh versus non-mesh so
i'm hitting it all right 122 down 48 up
our slowest result yet mixed into our results then we've got some things we
did expect and also some that we didn't we did expect our upload speeds to be
more affected by the metal cage than our download speeds because upload is more
reliant on the weaker antenna that's in your device rather than the stronger one
that's in your wireless access point what we
didn't really expect was that this would be so ineffective i mean if all you were
looking for was like a 5 to 10 decibel drop in signal strength you could really
just turn down the transmit power on your access point
another thing we didn't expect was that both of these products would basically
be reused paper holders in fact this one
i found still more evidence as if we didn't have enough even has little pads
on the bottom for where the feet are supposed to be for you to put it on your
desk but i'm not even that mad because the fact that it doesn't work very well is
honestly fine you wouldn't really want a
completely effective faraday cage around your wireless access point because it
would make it completely stop functioning
and if this placebo effect since it doesn't
actually even hurt the range of it that much makes some people sleep better at
night then i guess that's good for them but
we should also address the elephant in the room should you be afraid of wi-fi
radio or microwave or cellular signals 5g etc well basically any device with
any form of wireless communication is going to output some form of
electromagnetic radiation in order for it to function so that means everything
from your access point to your smart watch to your air pods or
outdoor wireless thermometer they all do it however this form of radiation is
considered non-ionizing meaning that in
very simple terms it does not carry enough energy to alter your dna and
subsequently cause harm to a human like by causing cancer
typically wi-fi and cellular signaling operates between the one and six
gigahertz range which is well within the non-ionizing range of
electromagnetic radiation and while 5g cellular which has been the big
controversy recently likely causing products like this to come to market
operates between 24 and 90 gigahertz
that is also still safely within the non-ionizing band of radiation meaning
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