"WiMAX - a technology which cleverly calls itself 4G despite only offering 3G speeds"

Haven't Docomo been trialing 4G in japan and have been getting speeds of up 100Mbps downstream. This kind of makes WIMAX a bit pointless.

It took me a while to figure out what the hell you were talking about with the tin foil lark.

Then I realised it related to an article regarding using tinfoil to boost weak signal..so i figured i'd post that here for the benefit of others ;)

"Q. How can a young child or baby tell you if they have a headache when near wi-fi or a mobile mast?

A. They'd cry their ass off. Young children and babies don't just lie around if they ache.

Q. How can you stop your neighbour putting their wi-fi router on the wall next to where you sleep?

A. No idea. I haven't had this problem.

Q. How much does the signal increase if you live in a flat, surrounded by people with routers, computers, and Nintendo Wii's?

A. Rounding down, zero. Do you fall down and start twitching when anyone within a block runs a microwave oven? The leakage from them is FAR stronger than wifi signals. Do radios and TVs give you a fit? They have a local oscillator that spews out plenty of RF noise. How about cars? The spark plugs can produce quite a bit of RF noise (except diesels that don't have this).

Q. Why does a window seem to focus the signal into a room, making it worse inside the room than if you were outside?

A. It doesn't, it's all in your head. The window lets a signal in better than a wall but it doesn't amplify or focus signals.

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4G... well, initially 3G was supposed to be service that would get 128kbps or up. Then once that was met by CDMA-1X (144kbps) and was found to not be much better than the present "2G" services, 3G was redefined to mean considerably higher speeds. Despite this, GSM providers here love to claim EDGE is "2.5G" or even "2.75G" even though it's definitely not by present definition of 3G. It's essentially a marketing term more than anything.

To be honest, rather than having some crazy 100mbps service, I'd rather have a "3G"-style speed but with caps lifted. For instance, Verizon Wireless where I live still has only 1X (144kbps) but has EVDO (1-3mbps more or less) rolled out over most of their service area -- but with a 5GB cap. I'd love to have 1-3mbps wireless without a cap more than 100mbps with a cap.

RF from wireless networking gear *cannot* under any circumstances harm you.

Q. How can a young child or baby tell you if they have a headache when near wi-fi or a mobile mast?

A. They can't, they just live with the constant pain and become moody or quiet.

Uhm, no. they don't get a headache from being near wifi. The reason they're probably moody or quiet is because they've got gas from the mungbean and soy juice drink you've given them in place of milk.

If you shine a fairly bright torch at your hand, more electromagnetic energy is hitting you than from a wireless network card. Do you get headaches from having a torch shone at you?

Anyone who says that wifi equipment or mobile phone masts make them ill is insane. Actually properly delusional insane requiring prompt psychiatric intervention kind of insane.