{"id":8211,"date":"2015-10-26T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:00:50","slug":"adventures-in-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/adventures-in-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"adventures in wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I got poking around the Lair’s wifi with some signal analysis tools. The interference and terrible signal to noise ratios I had to fight in the recording studio are just as bad in wifi, if not worse. It’s really terrible.<\/p>\n

But check this out – I think I’ve sussed part of it. In the illustration below, the red bar is the giant cement retaining wall. The bar is not actually to scale, sorry about that – it should be thicker, because it contains a lot<\/em> of rebar. The gradients of colour are wifi strength, from a nearby hotspot which is not<\/em> ours. I picked this one because it shows the effect best, but it shows up in imagery of other transmitters as well.<\/p>\n

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Do you see what’s going on here? The rebar in the retaining wall appears to be acting as a crude parabolic reflector<\/em>. This relatively-hot-spot is showing up in all of the maps, pretty clearly, except for the ones where that area shows up as a shadow of reduced<\/em> strength. I think those are signals from transmitters from the other side of the wall.<\/p>\n

I mean honestly, look at this. Am I wrong? This is so neat<\/em>. And I’m wondering if this is the cause of some of our other interference problems as well, like possibly even the BBC-World-Service-on-the-house-mains issues.<\/p>\n

All sorts of wireless things act very<\/em> strangely here. Even AM\/FM radio. And I’m starting to wonder if there’s a way to improve the grounding on the rebar. I can’t imagine how, but still.<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for the Grammy Awards Long List nominees, thank you for listening, and for your consideration<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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