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Realn solution is to have houses not so close to each other.

It's not even that, it's just build apartment blocks out of real materials like concrete and brick not wood and plasterboard.

I have lived in the centre of a city in a victorian apartment block and looking back it was a dream. About a foot of brick wall between me and the next flat either side. Never heard a peep, excellent WiFi.

Not a realistic solution at all

A way to solve this would be to switch to a hyperbolic space. We should have evolved from Euclidean geometry long ago. R'lyeh has no problem with wireless networking, you never drop a call.

This would come at the expense of lowering density and multiplying infrastructure costs by a few orders of magnitude, making everything less accessible in doing so.

Hard, hard no.

Great one!

Or, if you are not being sarcastic, the solution to wireless networking issues is to… rebuild cities in which billions of people live and spread those people over… where? Never mind the fact that cities are the best way of arranging lots of people, where would you build those "houses not so close to each other" that is not a desert, a cliff, or an ocean?

Whether they’re joking or not, it’s a good example of the sort of reasoning you see in those town hall meetings where a bunch of ancient home owners come up with straight faced reasons for why an apartment complex shouldn’t get built.

“They’ll have congested internet!” would go well alongside “It will block the sun on my daily walk on that part of the street!”

I feel like this is an unfair characterization. Having attended a couple of these type meetings, the common complaints are always traffic and crime.

Are they legitimate worries? I don't know.

But certainly more legitimate than congested internet and shade.

I was joking yes. Should have put an /s

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