Live far enough away from your neighbor for their wifi not to reach.
Yeah, it’s an interesting mitigation for sure, but it’s becoming increasing impossible not to have neighbors, especially due to “verticalization” (i.e. corporations buy some old houses to demolish 'em and emerge a whole new condominium building; even “boonies” (TIL this word) are undergoing verticalization, as I’ll say below).
You need about an acre.
An acre is around 4000 meter squared, or a land whose size is ~63.6 meters on each directional axis. If we consider a circular 1 acre (because radio signals often propagate omnidirectionally), it’s a circle whose diameter is ~70 meters (inverse of pi radius squared). In rural areas where I lived, my phone could detect and even connect to hotspots 500 meters distant from where I was, roughly 7 to 10 times those distances.
We don’t notice this in urban places because there’s a saturation of Wi-Fi channels (especially 2.4GHz still in use), so our phones tend to pick up the closest, and the closest within urban places will be really close, whereas rural areas lack this saturation, allowing for hotspots really far away to be connectable.
Just live in the Boonies.
Brazil, the country I reside in, could be considered “boonies” (a rural country). Practically all Brazilian states, with few exceptions (Rio de Janeiro state, Distrito Federal the federal district, São Paulo state and Goiás), have more than 10% of rural density (as per 2010 IBGE statistics), yet Brazil is getting more and more condominium buildings. Even rural areas are getting significantly denser due to a significant phenomenon of urban exodus from capital cities to small farmsteads in smaller towns that started during the COVID-19 pandemics, something that ends up fomenting urbanization and verticalization of those towns.
Also, “boonies” countries like Brazil are getting increasingly reliant on state-of-the-art tech. So I bet there are routers capable of the same USian Xfinity thing in Brazil. As a sidenote, I already saw EVs in small rural cities I visited.
There are still plenty of real estate where there’s little to no neighborhood, but it’s getting increasingly expensive unfortunately, so people end up going where their pockets can afford, and it’s often places where there are more people.
As far as I’m aware, the same verticalization, real estate inflation and influx of high tech are happening in other rural countries as well.
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Yeah, it’s an interesting mitigation for sure, but it’s becoming increasing impossible not to have neighbors, especially due to “verticalization” (i.e. corporations buy some old houses to demolish 'em and emerge a whole new condominium building; even “boonies” (TIL this word) are undergoing verticalization, as I’ll say below).
An acre is around 4000 meter squared, or a land whose size is ~63.6 meters on each directional axis. If we consider a circular 1 acre (because radio signals often propagate omnidirectionally), it’s a circle whose diameter is ~70 meters (inverse of pi radius squared). In rural areas where I lived, my phone could detect and even connect to hotspots 500 meters distant from where I was, roughly 7 to 10 times those distances.
We don’t notice this in urban places because there’s a saturation of Wi-Fi channels (especially 2.4GHz still in use), so our phones tend to pick up the closest, and the closest within urban places will be really close, whereas rural areas lack this saturation, allowing for hotspots really far away to be connectable.
Brazil, the country I reside in, could be considered “boonies” (a rural country). Practically all Brazilian states, with few exceptions (Rio de Janeiro state, Distrito Federal the federal district, São Paulo state and Goiás), have more than 10% of rural density (as per 2010 IBGE statistics), yet Brazil is getting more and more condominium buildings. Even rural areas are getting significantly denser due to a significant phenomenon of urban exodus from capital cities to small farmsteads in smaller towns that started during the COVID-19 pandemics, something that ends up fomenting urbanization and verticalization of those towns.
Also, “boonies” countries like Brazil are getting increasingly reliant on state-of-the-art tech. So I bet there are routers capable of the same USian Xfinity thing in Brazil. As a sidenote, I already saw EVs in small rural cities I visited.
There are still plenty of real estate where there’s little to no neighborhood, but it’s getting increasingly expensive unfortunately, so people end up going where their pockets can afford, and it’s often places where there are more people.
As far as I’m aware, the same verticalization, real estate inflation and influx of high tech are happening in other rural countries as well.