THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

Tin Hats are the new accessory for your WiFi router - I expect a modern edition of Bloo Peeter would tell you how to make the best one. Could be useful for some of us? :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

thriftwizard

Brilliant, thank you, GQ; it should now be possible to direct the signal away from places (and susceptible individuals) too! However finding the info in the Daily Wail might mean that some of my beloved family may refuse to take it entirely seriously, just as they laughed at my claims that our old router kept me awake & gave me headaches.

Mind you it took me a while to find the article, but it kept me well-entertained...

jk0

Guess I'm not the only one?

There's always the option of having the router connected with wires Angie. My modem is a speedtouch 330, and it connects to a USB socket, from which it derives its power. Therefore, it is shut off when my computer is off.

They are under a fiver on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/292240403821?chn=ps&dispItem=1&adgroupid=47759957459&rlsatarget=pla-434454803167&abcId=1128936&adtype=pla&merchantid=6995734&poi=&googleloc=1007009&device=c&campaignid=856939856&crdt=0

ivyleaf

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

According to a report in today's paper, it's not just suppliers you can have trouble switching, with a smart meter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-5060141/Why-smart-meter-stop-microwave-working.html

We have a smartmeter and our microwave works just fine. As does ours neighbours' stairlift, and they have a smartmeter too.

GreyQueen

I'm old skool enough to have an ethernet cable - phone socket is right beside the pooter desk and I don't need a wi-fi network, I'm hardly going to carting this huge desktop pc into the bedroom with me.

One time the Computer Wizard was here cruising for wi-fi networks with a dongle and there were about a dozen within reach all, unsportingly, passworded. I must be living in an electonic soup, wonder how healthy that is?

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Tin Hats are the new accessory for your WiFi router

Maybe they should be the accessory for the smart meter.

pineapple

thriftwizard wrote: »

Well - here's how NOT to do it: go to L!dls & the wholesalers, stock up, open boot, let an entire avalanche of tins, bottles etc. fall straight out onto the car park... needless to say, the fabric conditioner bottle broke and everything is incredibly slippery & smells horribly floral

Ha ha try drenching your wallet with the stuff. For a while I had very fragrant bank notes but the longest lasting effect was on my debit card - which developed a tendency to stick on the way out of cash machine slots - needing to be pulled out by force!

melanzana

When was the last time you needed Prepping, honestly now?

I did during a storm recently. Found the candles and the torches and had the power banks all charged up. But we had been warned by the Met Service.

No doubt Doomsday will arrive when I haven't done enough! Hope not.

mardatha

We should all try a dry run. Switch off the mains after dark. Pretend you have to get out fast. See what a mess you get into trying to find medicines/money/documents/bank cards/clothes/shoes etc in the dark!

Witless

............ and, if you want to make it really interesting .... practice your fire escape plan in the dark.