According to an important revelation that has come up recently, the concealed metal wiring of the homes that have integrated it into the old plaster walls at more or less a perfect wavelength of an 802.11 2.4GHz WiFi wireless broadband internet network signal could largely kill thelatter.
These wires that are also known as chicken wire, can potently cause a problem by making the installation of an internal or an externally received WiFi network extremely complicated, owing to one main reason that the walls can simply absorb the signal.
Although there is hardly anything new about the basic concept of walls intercepting wireless broadband networks, it is still interesting to study how a perfect Faraday cage is set up for the wireless broadband transmissions by the virulent chicken wire.
Those interested to know more about this phenomenon can get more of it in The Wall Street Journal that has observed that chicken wire integrated walls could absorb almost 75 per cent of the WiFi signal, while the ordinary plasterboard devoid of it, would only seize 33 percent.
The news can be considerably useful to the broadband/mobile broadband consumers in the United Kingdom, as the country is all set to experience a real WiFi boom, and it particularly targets the communities based in the rural areas.
07-01-2010
