You would need to take your access point and wave it all around various directions in the space around the microwave. The “leak” could occur in a direction that doesn’t have significant signal. Might be a better test to cook a large bowl of water, while testing your phone (outside the oven) on 2.4ghz … holding it on all sides of the oven to see if any areas degrade the signal. This testing approach isn’t that conclusive.
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#12Actually, this is not as stupid as it seems. I was first baffled by the idea that a website can read the RSSI of the device I'm on, then I realized its probably just measuring the latency by pinging every second.
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#13You would need to take your access point and wave it all around various directions in the space around the microwave. The “leak” could occur in a direction that doesn’t have significant signal. Might be a better test to cook a large bowl of water, while testing your phone (outside the oven) on 2.4ghz … holding it on all sides of the oven to see if any areas degrade the signal. This testing approach isn’t that conclus…
A live test would be quite dangerous if the microwave does leak EM.
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#14Isn't it lovely how we're inundating our homes with radiation at wavelengths that can cook meat? It's as if we _want_ the robot revolution to succeed.
You mean like infra-red from the Sun when we have homes with windows?
(A microwave is ~1 KiloWatt up close, WiFi is ~1Watt and meters away. This is like spreading fear that your house has a warm radiator which is bad because ovens use warmth to cook food).
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#15What does this chart indicate?
You load the web page on your phone, put it in to the microwave and close the door. The microwave should be a Faraday cage preventing microwave radiation getting through. Now the phone/web page cannot contact the internet. The chart stops updating.
Unless there's a leak, then the chart continues updating while the phone is in the microwave.
Then open the door and look if it could/couldn't keep pinging the server while the door was closed.
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#16> 1. Put phone on 2.4ghz wifi (5GHZ WILL NOT WORK!) Might be nice to expand on "will not work". Wouldn't 5 GHz Wi-Fi failing to connect show that it's even better at blocking, and would easily block 2.45 GHz too? And I'd think that they should block 5 GHz too, since those meshes look quite fine, and they probably try to be extra-safe.
5GHz actually has worse penetration and stronger attenuation over distance than 2.4GHz. Succesfully blocking 5GHz does not imply the same for 2.4GHz.
However I do agree that it's probably still gonna work because the faraday cages on microwaves are always overkill (even the cheap ones).
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#17Idk if OP is the person who wrote this, but on my device the red text about not turning the microwave on is not especially legible. I’d probably make that text a bit bigger and/or brighter. I expect most HN readers will know not to microwave a phone but you’d be surprised what people might do.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It says in red at the top to not turn on your microwave. This seems to be testing if WiFi waves can get through the microwave. It’s interesting the browser can get access to this information with no prompts
> It’s interesting the browser can get access to this information with no prompts Exactly what information is it getting ? What Chrome API is this using ?
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#19This thing is totally insane.
Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high.
Please remove this post.
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#20What does this chart indicate?
You load the web page on your phone, put it in to the microwave and close the door. The microwave should be a Faraday cage preventing microwave radiation getting through. Now the phone/web page cannot contact the internet. The chart stops updating. Unless there's a leak, then the chart continues updating while the phone is in the microwave. Then open the door and look if it could/couldn't keep pinging the server whil…
I did this and now my phone has an extra 4gb of RAM