 Do you guys sell anything else? I was thinking of getting some kind of screen that can block my TV when I'm trying to watch it. Now I know we're known for buying some of the craziest, stupidest things simply because we can, but this time we didn't buy the stupid thing because we wanted to use it. Instead, we bought it because its stupidity is simply so unfathomable that we had to show it to you guys. This is a Faraday cage, which is meant to protect you from the harmful radio waves that you might encounter from your home wireless access point. Wait, am I serious right now? Oh yeah. Just like I'm serious about telling you about our sponsor, Ting. Ting is a customer focused mobile provider and they have new rates to help you save more on your monthly service plan. Learn more at the end of this video or at the link below. A little bit of background music. Jake, did we really have to buy two of them? I mean, wouldn't one make the point? It's two different styles. Do we have to evaluate, you know, which one is the better quality ridiculous thing? It's hard to know where to start with this, so I'm gonna go straight back to my roots. We're gonna do a classic unboxing for you ladies and gentlemen. This one didn't have much of a box. It's just, it's like a metal mesh cage. Okay, you've got a base, you've got like a join here. You've got like a trim piece that's kinda looks like spot welded on. And then you've got this is really important. So because your router is intended to go inside this cage to protect you from the harmful wifi's, you've got to have this rubber grommet in here. So a little bit of wifi's are gonna kinda seep out there, but you need it in order to get the cables in. So that's just one of the two models that we checked out. This one here, this is the smart meter guard, okay. Now, obviously this could be used for any number of wifi things. So you could put, for example, your smart meter in it, or you could just put your router in it if you have more of like a standup style router. See like this one here, okay, like the AX5700 dual band. It's got a problem, right? It's got too much wifi's, so you can put it in one of these and theoretically that's gonna help you out. Now this one has more of like a top down slidey lid construction, and it comes with some documentation. Wifi routers emit RF, also called EMF, all day and night exposing you to the electric field. I think they mean electromagnetic field, which is not the same thing. The large router guard is built to block approximately 95% of the EMF your wifi router emits while still allowing you to use your router with your wireless devices. Excuse me, pardon? You can't block 95% of the EMF, which is like the wifi's, and still have it work. I mean, at least I wouldn't think so. Let's see what the users think. Holy shit, I'm sorry. I know I wasn't supposed to look at the price yet. I only wasted like 200 of your dollars. This was 90 Canadian dollars. Okay, Jake, now hold on a second. This looks like office equipment. Like a paper tray? It kind of looks like it would fit paper. Wait, that's why these are here, isn't it? Is that why these are here? Are we gonna benchmark the, hold on, what is this thing called? This is the Tachmeter wifi router shield, blocks up to 95% harmful waves. Oh my God, it's a paper holder. They put a grommet in a paper holder, and I paid them 90 Canadian dollars for it. I hate you, Jake. You did this to me. Hole in the middle can accommodate four wires at same time without any problems. No need to worry about the thickness of the wires. The router covers 12 by nine by four inches and can be compatible with most routers' product attributes bullet points. Easy to install. Place the router, oh my God. You know what, let's do it. Ow. It just like sliced up my finger. Actually? Yeah. Well, you're not supposed to take the grommet out. I thought it would like just kind of give way, and it didn't. You have to cut it. Look how thick it is in the spot where it's supposed to give way. Benchmark this real quick here. Put four in at once, you know? Four whole cables, and I didn't have to worry about the thickness at all. From Jeff Ridout, if you buy this, you've been scammed. RF is not harmful. This will make your WiFi router useless. What a hater. Wait, oh my God, Jake. I figured it out. Okay, you know how I was saying this one is more like bespoke looking? Watch this. No way. It's the same thing. This is the only part that they actually made. That's why it has, look, look, look, look, look, look. They just cut this thing off. They did a really nice job of finishing it. It's not gonna slice my finger open, so that's good. I thought this one was actually like a thing, but they just made the bottom and they cut the handle off. US dollars, I paid 90 US dollars for this plus $21 shipping. Are these guys even serious? Look at these questions and answers. Oh yes, they're so good. Why put your router in a Faraday cage when you can accomplish the same by throwing the router away and wrapping your head in aluminum foil? The answer from Smart Meter Guard, the manufacturer, is thanks for your question. If you wrap your head in aluminum foil, then you can't use your router because you can't see. Thanks. These are the products we are offering. The Phone Guard is our newest product. Oh my God, there's a phone. And we will soon have guards available for Amazon Alexa and other smart devices. Oh my God, this is a real serious question. Where is the router guard manufactured? What kind of paint is used, if any? Is this technically a Faraday cage? The large router guard is made in the US and made of silver painted steel. Yes, it is a Faraday cage. This is, is it painted? Oh, it might actually. Yeah, this is definitely not painted. So we got some misleading product information. How is this different from a microwave oven? Couldn't I put my wifi router in a microwave oven? Smart Meter Guard says, hello, yes, you could, but please don't turn your microwave oven on with the router in it. Okay, these guys are not serious. They can't, they have to be memeing. Oh my God, poor Aris. It works. I was very skeptical about it, but my wife made me buy it. So I decided to also get an EMF tester and check it out if it works. Results are clear. It works. Five stars. If this was an actual Faraday cage that could block electromagnetic radiation, then it would block your wifi signal. How can people be so scientifically illiterate? No, no, it is an actual Faraday cage. I mean, that's all a Faraday cage is. It's just a metal mesh. Like it really, it truly is. Wow, there's actually a fair number of five star reviews, even from verified purchasers. Roberto B, who is a top contributor in the pets category. I taught physics for close to 40 years and can vouch for this product's effectiveness. It reduced the electromagnetic output. Our living room, kitchen, and two bedrooms were still covered via wifi, but our remote bedroom was not just what I wanted. Tech tip, you can actually turn down the gain on your router. If you want less coverage, that's a thing. The main reason to do it is because it can improve your signal to noise ratio. So it can improve the quality of the signal nearer to your access point, or it can keep your wifi range from extending too far if you consider that to be a security risk. But keeping the wifi's out of your bloodstream is not the reason to do it. That's a good one too. If you have other access points and you don't want them to have overlapping coverage zones, which can confuse your phone and stuff. It shouldn't surprise me that the kind of person who would unironically buy this would be the kind of person who could f*** up using it. But JPRDH still managed to surprise me. One star because it doesn't work. We tried this cage and it does not reduce the signal on either of my routers, returned it and put them into a solid metal box. Now I can see the signal is half of what it was. Now we have to try it. Let's get a wireless access point, you know, one that offers excellent, excellent signal strength and therefore lots of wifi contamination in your home. Well, you can't put it in yet. We gotta get a control. Well, I got to, well, I wanted to see if it can, I wanted to see if it can fit, you know? Okay, well it fits. Well it fits. Look at that. Wow. I feel safer already. Let's start with our test. First, let's evaluate the product based on the manufacturer claims. That's, we'll review it. Oh my God, this cable tie. It doesn't hold in place well enough for me to, you know what, I don't care anymore. Go ahead and cut. My webcam output. Oh yeah. We have better cable ties, lttstore.com. Thanks Andy. Andy gave me his phone and he actually found it. This is it. This is the exact one from Yinghua. Oh my God, this is so funny. Same dimensions. Oh look, they have a black version. You know, if that fits more your style in your RF safe home. Oh, but then how could you possibly fashion this, you know, wonderful bottom for him? Andy, you're a genius. 35 yen. 35 Chinese yen. That's like five US dollars. Five US dollars for they charged me 90 US dollars. To establish a baseline for our RF exposure, we've gone ahead and fired up wifi analyzer. And I'm starting with this unprotected wifi access point. And I'm getting on our test network about, oh, if I move around, it kind of changes. Minus 31 decibels on five gigahertz. Now let's go here. Living room set, we're getting minus 61. Okay, one more location, Andy. Give it a sec, it still thinks it's the same. Minus 68. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Are you ready to be protected, Jake? Yeah, 100%. Didn't have to get too close to it. You know, I've got to keep a safe distance. My five gigahertz signal strength is minus 42 right now. Sure is a good thing. We didn't spend extra to have a really high quality wireless access point, only to cripple it for no reason. Minus 68. I'm at minus 72 in the bedroom, Jake. The speed test has really been what separated the mesh versus non mesh. So I'm hitting it. All right, 122 down, 48 up. Our slowest result yet. Mixed into our results then, we've got some things we did expect and also some that we didn't. We did expect our upload speeds to be more affected by the metal cage than our download speeds, because upload is more reliant on the weaker antenna that's in your device, rather than the stronger one that's in your wireless access point. What we didn't really expect was that this would be so ineffective. I mean, if all you were looking for was like a five to 10 decibel drop in signal strength, you could really just turn down the transmit power on your access point. Another thing we didn't expect was that both of these products would basically be reused paper holders. In fact, this one, I found still more evidence as if we didn't have enough, even has little pads on the bottom for where the feet are supposed to be. You need to put it on your desk. But I'm not even that mad, because the fact that it doesn't work very well is honestly fine. You wouldn't really want a completely effective Faraday cage around your wireless access point, because it would make it completely stop functioning. And if this placebo effect, since it doesn't actually even hurt the range of it that much, makes some people sleep better at night, then I guess that's good for them. But we should also address the elephant in the room. Should you be afraid of wifi radio or microwave or cellular signals, 5G, et cetera? Well, basically any device with any form of wireless communication is going to output some form of electromagnetic radiation in order for it to function. So that means everything from your access point to your smartwatch, to your AirPods or outdoor wireless thermometer, they all do it. However, this form of radiation is considered non-ionizing, meaning that in very simple terms, it does not carry enough energy to alter your DNA and subsequently cause harm to a human, like by causing cancer. Typically, wifi and cellular signaling operates between the one and six gigahertz range, which is well within the non-ionizing range of electromagnetic radiation. And while 5G cellular, which has been the big controversy recently, likely causing products like this to come to market, operates between 24 and 90 gigahertz, that is also still safely within the non-ionizing band of radiation, meaning no, it's not going to hurt you. 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If you guys enjoyed this video, you might also enjoy the video where we took a more serious look with some actual like serious RF testing equipment at a hat that had sort of metal mesh built into it to protect your head from RF.