New house has Faraday cage in the loft room

[Cosimo]

Hmmm, that is weird.

 

[snips86x]

How many power points are around the room? Ethernet?

The trunking on the left of the door looks crap like it may have been done in a hurry.

Internet related is a good shout, but what? Mystery waiting to be uncovered!

 

[pitchfork]

You have experience in room suitability for captives?

Not experience but I was curious, criminals fascinate me so I often research how I would commit a crime if I was going to do it - how other people have done it, where their mistakes were.

 

[Kimi]

There are a few ethernet ports and power points on the trunking. Heres a couple more pics where you can sort of see. The whole house was wired with cat 5 in each room but i took it out because the installation was so poor.

 

[snips86x]

That's an awful lot of power points and Ethernet for such a small room! Can you find out who the previous tenants were?

 

[Kimi]

Thats why being an office is plausible, that with the ethernet, but then what benefit is a faraday? are servers that susceptible to electromagnetic forces??

 

[Mynight]

Actually looks really nice(well not the trunking job).

Would love to know what he was doing in there. Cant need that many ethernet ports to build a server surely.

Edit: Just out of interest can you get a signal on your phone in that room?

 

[Liampope]

Is that two handles that were on the door - one vertical and one horizontal? Clearly to assist a good two-handed shove to close the door when the aliens are trying to get in!

 

[arknor]

you should post it on reddit with a monetised youtube video linked

 

[Kimi]

Heh good idea, ill have to make a youtube slideshow when im done, from faraday to cinema roomaday

 

[robj20]

If he built servers or repaired them it might have been a condition of working at home that he have a faraday cage. Lots of server rooms use them. Info here what sort of places would use them.
http://www.faradaycages.com/server-rooms

 

[v0n]

Is it actually working as a functional faraday cage, do you have mobile reception issues when inside or something?

 

[hughtrimble]

If he built servers or repaired them it might have been a condition of working at home that he have a faraday cage. Lots of server rooms use them. Info here what sort of places would use them.
http://www.faradaycages.com/server-rooms

Absolutely.

I don't see quite why such strange assumptions are being made. If it works as a Faraday cage, then it's doing its job properly and the chap knew what he was doing.

If it doesn't work, then he didn't know what he was doing, but thought of himself as a bit of a whizz.

 

[Kimi]

Im not sure if it worked or not, i removed the door so cant test it anymore. I assume it did because its a lot of trouble to go to if it didnt. I dont get very good reception anywhere in the house really. Could be a great selling point to the house.

 

[Karl]

Protection against steeling and destroying of digital information

Do you reckon a lot of people are steeling information?

 

[hughtrimble]

Do you reckon a lot of people are steeling information?

You make an acute point.

 

[skyripper]

If he had loads of servers, networking gear etc. maybe he was worried about causing interference for other people.

Maybe he had a mate who was also a amateur radio fan. Or he had complaints from the old lady next door with her telly from the 1960s?

Or maybe he was a bit of a loon.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Have you checked the garden for bodies yet?

 

[Mikey]

If he built servers or repaired them it might have been a condition of working at home that he have a faraday cage. Lots of server rooms use them. Info here what sort of places would use them.
http://www.faradaycages.com/server-rooms

I was about to say does he work for the MOD etc lol

 

[Maccapacca]

We use chicken mesh in plasterboard party walls for SBD (secure by design) to stop people cutting through.