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From: Don Phillipson on 26 Jun 2010 18:01 Wireless broadband is marginal here, viz. fails for 5 min. to 12 hours once a month or so, and no one knows why (est. 1 or 1.5 miles to the nearest cell phone tower.) As soon as vinyl (-clad steel) windows were installed, replacing all-wood windows, reception became no good (ISP's wireless modem scanning all the time without ever locking to a signal.) Do steel windows create a sort of Faraday cage preventing connection? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
From: DanS on 26 Jun 2010 20:27
"Don Phillipson" <e925(a)SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in news:i05te0 $hbq$3(a)speranza.aioe.org: > Wireless broadband is marginal here, viz. fails for 5 min. > to 12 hours once a month or so, and no one knows why > (est. 1 or 1.5 miles to the nearest cell phone tower.) > > As soon as vinyl (-clad steel) windows were installed, > replacing all-wood windows, reception became no good > (ISP's wireless modem scanning all the time without > ever locking to a signal.) Do steel windows create a > sort of Faraday cage preventing connection? No, but coatings and additives to the glass do. |