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Culprit in Wi-Fi Failures: Chicken Wire
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
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By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
Two things beloved by San Francisco resident Galen Pewtherer just couldn't get along: his Edwardian-style house and wireless Internet access.
In 2008, Mr. Pewtherer tried to replace his old-fashioned cable Internet connection with a Wi-Fi network that he could share with other tenants in his building. "It turned out to be impossible," says the 38-year-old program manager at Cisco Systems Inc. "We couldn't get signal in or out of one room."
That is because Mr. Pewtherer's 80-year-old building in the Mission District, like thousands of other old homes in the Bay Area, was built with the technological equivalent of kryptonite in its walls: chicken wire. Metal wiring inside old plaster walls blocks wireless signals, frustrating San Francisco residents as wireless-equipped devices like iPhones and laptops proliferate.
The problem dates to before drywall became a popular building material in the 1950s. Before then, construction crews usually made walls out of plaster applied to lath, a base structure that holds it up. Often, lath in Victorian and Edwardian-era homes was made of wood stapled with chicken wire, a cheap fencing material that also doubles as lightweight support. The problem occurs in other cities too, but San Francisco has an unusually dense collection of old homes and gadget lovers.
"It's the old bumping into the new," says Mike Scott, a technical media manager for network gear maker D-Link Corp., who fields many questions about chicken wire. "How were people 70 years ago supposed to know that we were going to have all of these wireless gadgets?"
Many factors can disrupt wireless networks, including steel girders, air-conditioning vents and water-filled objects -- including humans and pets. But even with its many holes, chicken wire creates a particularly powerful metal shield.
Physicists call it a "Faraday cage" -- a metal structure that impedes electricity and waves -- because the fencing is the perfect size to catch waves generated by 2.4-gigahertz Wi-Fi networks. "It turns out that chicken wire is almost perfectly the right wavelength of a Wi-Fi signal," says Karl Garcia, who sets up Google Inc.'s free Wi-Fi efforts. "It acts just like a solid piece of metal."
Google's plans to bring citywide Wi-Fi to San Francisco died in 2007 for political reasons. But Mr. Garcia says making it work in a city filled with so many hills -- and so much chicken wire -- would have created unique technical challenges.
San Francisco resident Alex Menendez, a partner in boutique Internet service provider MonkeyBrains.net, discovered the difference chicken wire can make when he recently gutted a 130-year-old house in the Mission. He removed one-inch metal mesh behind plaster walls and replaced it with drywall. However, the co-owner of the property left his original walls intact.
The result: Wi-Fi networks flow smoothly through Mr. Menendez's part of the property. But according to their tests, his neighbor's walls lose as much as 75% of the signal and 33% of the throughput.
There are workarounds for the problem beyond knocking out walls, and Mr. Pewtherer in the Mission has tried almost all of them. He bought special equipment to "bridge" signals between the rooms, but it worked only in spots where there was a clean line of sight from a wireless transmitter to the receiver.
He also built a signal-boosting antenna out of an old Pringles can, known as a "cantenna," following some online instructions. Despite cranking the cantenna signal "high enough to cook bacon," it improved his signal only minimally, he says.
In the end, he gave up on wireless entirely and ran Ethernet cable through the walls and floorboards in the building. But the Ethernet network ended up solving only one wireless problem. The same factors that prevented Wi-Fi signals from penetrating Mr. Pewtherer's walls also kept out cellphone signals. "I basically had to stand on the fire escape to get a cell signal," he says.
He has since moved to another building with an open plan -- and no wireless woes.
Write to Geoffrey A. Fowler at geoffrey.fowler@wsj.com
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B.C., Saskatchewan Ban Cellphone Use While Driving By Derek Leschasin. The goal of both laws is to hopefully reduce driver distraction and thereby reduce accidents. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), people who talk on cellphones and drive are six times more likely to be involved in an accident than the average driver. That rate goes up to 23 times for those who text and drive. "There is no question that this legislation will make our province's roads safer," said Lindsay Olson, the IBC Vice-President for BC, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, in a press release. According to the Globe and Mail, drivers in B.C. face a $167 fine if police catch them talking on the phone while driving. The fine in Saskatchewan is higher, at $280. However, the B.C. government is giving drivers a grace period until February 1st, when the fines will come into effect. Hands-free devices will still be permitted in both provinces, but new drivers will be banned from using such technology. The two provinces join a lengthening list of Canadian provinces that have enacted similar bans, and the trend appears to be growing globally. Alberta and New Brunswick lack any related legislation, but Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island all have similar rules, and Manitoba is planning to pass a law later this year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Surprising Dangers of Flying through Clouds Posted by: Dr. Mercola
January 02 2010
Passengers on planes flying near or through lightning storms could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation. Lightning discharges, or a related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, can jolt airline passengers with a level of radiation equivalent to 400 chest X-rays.
A study was conducted to estimate radiation levels based on satellite and ground observations of X-rays and gamma rays. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes are mysterious phenomena that are believed to originate at the same flying altitudes as airliners. Scientists believe they are produced in the electric fields above the thunderstorms.
Using computer models to estimate the levels of radiation produced within or near thunderclouds during a lightning storm, researchers concluded that the amount of radiation within immediate proximity to these lightning events could be high enough to be considered a "biologically significant level."
January 02 2010
Passengers on planes flying near or through lightning storms could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation. Lightning discharges, or a related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, can jolt airline passengers with a level of radiation equivalent to 400 chest X-rays.
A study was conducted to estimate radiation levels based on satellite and ground observations of X-rays and gamma rays. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes are mysterious phenomena that are believed to originate at the same flying altitudes as airliners. Scientists believe they are produced in the electric fields above the thunderstorms.
Using computer models to estimate the levels of radiation produced within or near thunderclouds during a lightning storm, researchers concluded that the amount of radiation within immediate proximity to these lightning events could be high enough to be considered a "biologically significant level."
