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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day agoWifi is a fickle beast, though you may be right.
The elements of the cage will probably interfere, but won’t straight up block the signal. To be an effective faraday cage, holes in the material must be no bigger than 1/10th the wavelength.
2.4GHz wifi has a wavelength of 12cm, and 5GHz is about 5cm…so holes in the cage should be no bigger than 1.2cm for 2.4GHz, or 0.5cm for 5GHz.
Problem #1 is this AP is oriented vertically on a wall. The antennas in these models are designed to be parallel to the floor, and usually not much higher than 15ft.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
that’s actually massive, I thought it would be like half a centimeter at most
zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Newer standards are substantially shorter at 5GHz and 6GHz, though it comes at the cost of significantly worse signal penetration through walls.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Which in a gym will be will be fine.