Everyone is missing the point of this product. It's not to stop wifi stealing - that's the marketing department badly trying to make the product easier to sell and the blog being lazy.<p>The reason you'd buy this is to keep the radio spectrum within your room yours. Like someone else said - this would open up more channels to you and prevent the guy downstairs running a microwave or buying a cordless phone from screwing with your signal.
CNN's blog editors should be ashamed at having allowed this paragraph: "The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product point to studies that say the overuse of wireless technology could cause harmful heath effects."
"The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product point to studies that say the overuse of wireless technology could cause harmful heath effects."<p>Umm..
If someone is causing substantial harm to you by stealing your WiFi then sue them.<p>If its just some dumb kid guessed your 'password' or aircracked it, the upgrade to a better WPA.<p>If you're being trolled by a leet hacker, then you've got bigger problems.<p>But please don't buy into that BS.
How much less does this cost, in terms of both time and money, compared to <i>setting a password</i> on your access point?<p>Oh, it costs <i>more</i>.<p>Brilliant!
Don't most modems have a setting where you can turn off broadcasting the WiFi network name? That would stop people stealing it, as they can't even see that it's there in the list of available networks.