Agreed.

Put all the WAP’s on the same POE switch, and kill power to that switch when you need to shut off the WiFi.

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thanks for the input fellas - I know the request is absurd but I promised customer an answer. this is an old condo with NO wire in place and to hard-wire would be prohibitively expensive. Considering just putting the eeros on smart switches (plugs) and put in writing that there are issues that may arise.

Being somewhat of a control freak and concerned about this kludge surviving a power failure, I was thinking BSR10. A modern incarnation of BSR-10 is Caséta.

There is no WiFi and you can control switched outlets locally, from online, and by schedule.

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First, unplug all the Eero, then use a WiFi scanner, and show them all their neighbor signals that are penetrating into their condo.

"Do you still want to invest in turning off yours?"

Trying to show the customer that they are stupid is rarely a good way to go.

But a gentle education is never a bad thing

Wow. This has NEVER occurred to me and I've used cell phones forever. Perhaps it's because I use mine as an alarm....


I always try to solve them Evil Mo Fo problems before I sign off on a project.


But wait a minute -- isn't lead poisonous?


There's an old saying, "never ascribe to evil intentions anything that can be explained by stupidity." A similar thing might be written along the lines of "never blame something that you suspect until you have investigated EVERY DAMN THING."


Showing them that there are myriad signals other than their own does not have to be done in a manner that calls them idiots. You might not convince them, but if they have lived there for any period of time before installing the EEROs, you can honestly tell them that the addition of the EEROs has made hardly any difference in the amount of signals in the air.

By the way, how does "electromotive force," which is basically voltage, have ANYTHING to do with this? EMF exists between the terminals of a disconnected battery! (and speaking of batteries, doesn't the lead and the acid of lead-acid batteries bother these folks?)

just hide the ssid and tell them it's in low radiation mode.

Years ago I worked for a small PC repair company. We had this customer that complained that her computer was emitting radiation and she was afraid she was gonna die. So the boss grabbed a couple of us and some gear and headed out there. I instructed us to just stay quiet and look very serious. He tells her he will test for radiation to show see if she is safe. He waved a wand around and shows her on the meter the levels stays at 0. The wand was a meat thermometer. The meter was an analog voltage meter. He just held the wire to the meter in his hand so it looked like it was connected. She was very happy to learn the computer was not going to kill her.