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This is yet another reason to own (or better yet, build your own) router.
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works @nebula42@lemmy.zip If a neighbor has this thing, it doesn't matter if your router is yours, because theirs will still "infiltrate" (and see as well, as I'll say below) your house as microwave-length (both the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz) electromagnetic waves can and will trespass the walls separating the two...
...except if all your house structure, including walls and the floor and the roof, are layered with a metallic plate and/or a metallic mesh spaced exactly 12cm/x (the wavelength and its harmonics, such as 6cm (4.8GHz), 3cm(9.6GHz), etc) apart, but then it must not be electrically grounded, which then requires the plate/mesh to be something internally "glued" or bolted (with bolts made of non-conductive material) to the wall tiles and floor tiles rather than something buried inside concrete walls. Or, to summarize in two words, Faraday cage.
Why? Because the main problem with this technology is that it's not restricted to wall boundaries. In fact, it's used for some applications (military, police, etc., possibly even Google Streetview did this because they use wardriving to "improve geolocation services") to literally "see through the walls".
Or, to make this more ominous and menacing, "you can be seen in the dark"... And I mean this phrase in a literal sense, because the Wi-Fi transmitter acts like a lamp so a specialized array of Wi-Fi receivers can "see"...
So, actually, even your own router will end up being an involuntary lamp to your house for an external "Wi-Fi eye" (the aforementioned array of Wi-Fi receivers), except if you use other frequencies allowed for ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical radio ranges) such as 433MHz.
The solution is simpler yet still involving some complexities (such as math behind electromagnetic wavelength, harmonics, electrical conductivity, etc): Faraday cage all inside the house. Having no neighbors is also an interesting mitigation factor (although increasingly difficult as people are used to gather in neighborhoods, as well as the ongoing verticalization of cities).
Just have a jammer doing destructive interference problems solved
then you cant use your own wifi. Besides a jammer you need to use cable internet only.