It rains 9 months a year here. Much of the US gets quite cold or hot for a significant part of the year. I really don't want to step outside to use my phone. WFH means I need to leave it on my porch in order to receive work calls, I guess.

Go old school - get a landline and one of those analogue rotary dial phones. The most secure phone there is.

Does that actually work for 5G? I believe that, in urban areas, you can even get cell reception from inside a microwave because a phone needs very little signal.

I can still get cell reception in my bedroom that has three coats of the paint with proper copper grounding running through it all. But it barely registers on my meter now whereas before it was 100x. I'm sensitive to emf and do sleep noticeably better now. I still turn my phone and wifi off at night. I'm about 400 metres from a cell tower. Rural so no 5g yet I think. Yeah I have the window film and metal window screens and metal fabric curtains too. Wasn't a trivial project.

Can you explicate more about emf sensitivity! Just asking because I have never heard such thing. And, yea caging entire house is probably arduous and costs fortune.

Its just anecdotal, I definitely sleep better the further I'm away from cell phones, cell towers and pulsed wifi routers. I've got a meter and I've used emf shielding clothes prior to addressing my bedroom. Its pretty hard to do decent studies on it since its so prevalent. Prone to quackery and people making quick bucks on it too.

You should check out better call Saul, main character is a lawyer who has a brother who lives with debilitating emf sensitivity, he is the only one who believes him though. They go really in depth about it for like 2 seasons

Am a fan. I can't imagine suffering it that bad. For me it's just a few bad nights in a row that wear me out if I'm not careful.

> because a phone needs very little signal

Isn't it because the microwave is shielded against a very specific frequency, that is much lower than the 5G one? So that the 5G frequency penetrates the shielding without much trouble?

(I'm really not sure, that's my initial guess, but the questions are not rhetorical.)

Microwaves are at 2.4Ghz. Normal 5G ranges from 800Mhz till about 5Ghz. That is about the same ballpark, and Faraday cages are not incredibly frequency sensitive devices.

And coated windows. Sounds like the way forward.

Does a smart fridge still work if you rip the modem and Wlan boards out?

Having worked in a former alphabet agency building that did have a faraday cage built into it, don’t worry too much about the windows. They weren’t a big enough hole to allow connections even in the middle of the city. Even standing at one with your cell phone was iffy.

But that's exactly what an alphabet agency employee would say!