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>50s/60s/70s houses that were build with plaster/chicken wire

the new townhouses being built near by in MV are exactly this.

depends on whether it's used for internal walls, chicken wire as part of plaster on external walls alone would help keep the neighbor's interference down

Older chicken wire for internal walls (ie pre-drywall) is the problem at 5GHz (and I'm sure to a lesser extent at 2.4GHz)

Hard to beat steel or aluminum siding to protect yourself from the neighbors.

I would love it if those down-voting this comment would explain why. Is this comment untrue? How? Does not metal siding end up grounded, however weakly, by rain downspouts anchored to the side of the house then contacting the ground. Does not a relatively contiguous grounded metal sheet around the exterior of a building attenuate 2.4 and 5Ghz?

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