Haha. While pulling power with definitely kill the WiFi, most home and commercial WiFi devices allow you to turn it off in software.

To the original comment of the video, I think most network admins will just turn the AP light off in those scenarios and that makes them happy 99% of the time.

NO everyone should be able to do this easy hack

I’ll admit, it’s an extremely easy hack. Also has the added benefit that they can no longer contact support to complain. We already know they won’t be using a cell phone, what with all those dangerous radio waves and all.

and you would believe that it's actually off? That's just what they /want/ you to think....

Well if the lights off, it must be off… right? 😏

Yes - When would software be wrong!

LOL I was expecting a sudden end to the video once you pulled the power.

just realized this is my 2nd video showcasing unplugging a firewalla … im rly sorry firewalla ily your stuff rocks

Before I started working at a orevious job, someone insisted the walls of their office had to be painted with RF blocking paint to block the "migraine causing wifis" or whatever. I believe they used a cellphone and were annoyed when it also didn't work.

It is vexing how few people understand inverse square laws, or the EM spectrum, or ionising vs. Non-ionizing radiation.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is Indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C Clarke's 3rd Law We are now seeing it in action A wizard (Electrical engineer)

I was half way expecting you to take scissors to the power cable....

No, no, no, we need a more convoluted and conspiratorial solution than this! (lol)

That's where Fi-Wi comes in: a router that generates waves exactly inverse to the Wifi, thereby cancelling them

Hahahahha

Can confirm.

Gotta download a few things first, but it's a great "hack".

More seriously, though... If the visible radiation doesn't worry you (which per photon has a lot more energy than anything beyond infrared - the shortest wavelength typically used for communication), then you shouldn't be worried about any other wavelength.

The biggest danger you run is getting close to a big very energetic emitter... Which will be warned or felt locally. Besides when you increase wavelengths beyond microwaves... You basically need to actively seek danger to actually feel any effects of wavelengths with typical sizes of meters.

And we never noticed any death increase from AM radio, guys. If those effects existed we'd have detected.

I have a RJ45 coupler that I use as a killswitch

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