Just occurred to me that the humble microwave should be a fairly effective Faraday cage, certainly for the microwave spectrum, anyone know how good it is for the relevant communication frequencies?

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I played online games with some people who mentioned their wifi signal drops whenever someone operates the microwave in the kitchen. (Also, other people had problems when certain old neon lights next to their room were on.)

    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      I’ve never had that problem, a few minutes ago I tried to make a call and put the phone in the microwave, the moment I closed the door it cut the call.

      I’d be worried if I had a leaky microwave.