I am watching this in middle of the field. So it made me smile when he said this
@cricket60093 жыл бұрын
Haha read your comment before I watched the video and thought it was a bit odd - which made me smile when he said it. Not to say I don’t watch random videos at random places and inappropriate times. I love and hate The internet for the way it’s changed our lives. Keep watching brother x
@simranchoudhary12953 жыл бұрын
Wow
@cat18002 жыл бұрын
@@HarshRaj10.11 maybe he was just chilling in the field duh
@KJULIENN1 Жыл бұрын
@@cricket6009 😭😭🤣same
@skellious9 жыл бұрын
"Wifi is carrying a set of instructions to tell your computer what to do to each pixel on your screen"... come on guys, that's not what happens at all. that's a gross oversimplification and implies all processing is done remotely and that wifi can only be used for internet browsing. Why not explain TCP/IP first?
@skellious9 жыл бұрын
Frank U. Now THIS is the sort of information I want from a video :D I notice you have a channel. maybe you could make some?
@Xenro669 жыл бұрын
Skellious I second this!
@FranklyTheSeeker19829 жыл бұрын
Skellious yes, I have a channel, but I don't have a proper camera and only record videos over the various DirectX9+ APIs (Nvidia ShadowPlay, previously Xfire) and process them. Besides, I'm quite bad at presenting for NeuroSocial-reasons. But I've expanded my post a bit. Also - since I'm i.a. SystemEngineer for Networks - I wrote a textbook during my studies/advanced training, of which I want to publish it's Table of Contents and some example-Chapters in Dropbox. I simply haven't yet time to do so (severe illness + was - and still am - in the process of moving to a new apartment (within germany)). Nowadays I'm more interested in holistic health (physical+mental; PersonalTraining, SportsMedicine, Psychosomatics, Medical Training (rehab/injuries/orthopedic reasons), Active Rest (for me Medical QiGong) and Language as translation (English at native levels, japanese, standard Chinese/Mandarine, and maybe Spainish).
@thanksfernuthin9 жыл бұрын
I hoped for a more informative video on it's communication protocol... handshakes... data... etc. Seeing it broken down visually would have been good. This was OK though. Nothing to complain about. For more information do a search.
@TiagoSeiler9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, stopped watching right there, that's bullshit. You want to make a video purporting to explain how something work, don't spew out a ton of crap.
@sotarnue4 жыл бұрын
I’m here to learn how to make my own WiFi. My mom didn’t pay the cable bill this month
@sabyasachimitra96444 жыл бұрын
Then there is no hope of browsing the internet bro
@sotarnue4 жыл бұрын
Sabyasachi Mitra LMFAOOOOOOO
@jayhart88473 жыл бұрын
U have the internet, shut up.
@gokwhozz97703 жыл бұрын
😂
@mkmllrc3 жыл бұрын
@@sotarnue so you made your own wifi now cause you can reply
@chaquator9 жыл бұрын
"controls the pixels on your screen" Yeah good one
@TheBluMeeny9 жыл бұрын
Laughed especially at that one too.
@rillloudmother9 жыл бұрын
for real
@FrozenHaxor9 жыл бұрын
chaquator Layman video
@TheBluMeeny9 жыл бұрын
chaquator That extent then is a VERRRYYYY far stretch. I would like to see them make a video detailing from start to finish how the wifi data received turns into those "pixels on your screen". It's going to be a pretty lengthy video.
@TheBluMeeny9 жыл бұрын
chaquator Yeah, exactly. They could have gone over at LEAST the basics. But they just went from point a to point b, IN A MAZE, without explaining the directions.
@kara88bg9 жыл бұрын
Not to confuse terminology, Wi-Fi is a name of a standard of WLAN networks that follow IEEE 802.11 standard. What you have explained is how Wireless Local Area Network works in general, and Wi-Fi is a WLAN network between Wi-Fi certificated devices by certain standards.
@CookingWithCows9 жыл бұрын
the representation of the visual wifi signal is wrong though. You wouldn't be able to see the pulses move through the air. Just like light, you would see objects that reflect them into your eye, unless you look directly into the wave source, in which case many of the "wifi rays" hit your eyes directly, much like looking into a light bulb. In a sense, seeing wifi would look very much as if you are looking at a street with old school street lamps on (that emit light in all directions instead of a beam downwards). Only instead of light bulbs, you have wifi routers :P Okay, maybe more like light shining through windows into a dark street, with walls that are made of paper so a bit of light still passes through
@gownerjones29 жыл бұрын
Exactly because Wifi and light are in fact the same thing (EMR), just with different wavelengths.
@marcpurkiss32339 жыл бұрын
please stop calling the waves wifi- wifi is just the name of the connection type, the waves are in the RF band, specifically the 2.4Ghz is in the UHF band, and the 5Ghz is in the SHF band, and they don't radiate in every direction like a bulb, they radiate only when the electron movement is visible as perpendicular to the angle of the observer, it should also be noted that light doesn't just go in a straight line- it refracts and defracts too, and as the RF band is significantly lower frequency these effects are much more pronounced
@exafrost9 жыл бұрын
Marc Purkiss I know too many people, who have mentioned in conversation, on going problems with the wifi connection to their router disconnecting or taking too long and timing out... and of course the ever-popular complaint, of not being able to connect at all, in certain areas or rooms... I get them to show me where the router is located, and typically it will be sitting behindva monitor, on a desk against the outside-wall of a room, on the 2nd floor (or basement). Sometimes against the outside wall which faces the street, and they cant figure out why access in their backyard is poor. First thing I tell them, (if the modem and router are seperate devices, leave the modem where it is, but relocate the wifi router to the main floor, as close to the center of the house...on top of a cabinet for example.. and if possible, in line of sight to doorways.. of course now a Cat 6 cable will have to be run from the modem to the router, which I offer to do... but most of the time they don't like the idea of running lan cable through walls, because "oh that will make such a mess, and I hate seeing wires... and there will be a hole in the wall..."... I assure them no wires will be hanging out of the walls, and the drywall dust will be vacuumed up..and 'what hole? There will be a wall plate with an RJ45 jack behind where the router would be... and if they still don't want to do it, I tell them to get used to it and stop complaining...
@joejoe4games9 жыл бұрын
***** plus it wouldn't blink/pulse like sound waves but rather be of constant color AND brightness since WiFi uses PM to transmit information
@nathanschumacher37727 жыл бұрын
I am watching this in the middle of a field.
@frogambassador9 жыл бұрын
Looks like James May might be full time on this channel soon.
@Nilguiri9 жыл бұрын
Maybe he'll bring Clarkson with him to liven things up a bit.
@Nilguiri9 жыл бұрын
***** Suspended from the BBC, right?
@mannosan9 жыл бұрын
Nilguiri nah, he's suspended from everything in the universe as we know it
@Nilguiri9 жыл бұрын
mannosan haha, aye.
@mannosan9 жыл бұрын
I had to do it :D
@mrcool1st9497 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, I always wanted to know what WiFi is and how it works. Could you please make a video that explains how the router creates WiFi and how data works, like how does the router know the monthly WiFi it gives and how security works in the router that connects through data
@ThexBorg9 жыл бұрын
WiFi: Invented by the CSIRO in Australia
@ShrirajHegde6 жыл бұрын
2:16 Wi-Fi signals bounce off each other 😂
@michaelhouston12385 ай бұрын
This video was a well explained educational breakdown for me. I appreciated it
@yousorooo9 жыл бұрын
Simply put, WiFi is just light but can't be seen with human eyes, and a router is just a computer controlled flashlight.
@saris428 жыл бұрын
The speed at which EMR travels has NOTHING to do with the speed at which we can transmit data over wifi..... I HATE when people who are trying to educate people, simplify a concept so much that it becomes at it's core Wrong.... PLEASE fix this video to more accurately represent HOW wifi works, OR take it down.
@unvergebeneid9 жыл бұрын
Q: How does Wi-Fi work? A: It doesn't.
@waleedmughal7865 жыл бұрын
haha
@ZeroRiskAppetite9 жыл бұрын
If I gave that bullshit answer in class, my professor would bitch slap me.
@biranfalk-dotan24489 жыл бұрын
Heat doesn't need to travel through air either, because it travels through infrared waves, which are electromagnetic radiation.
@Mugetsuism9 жыл бұрын
***** "Heat" is just the vibrations of particles. Infrared heats things up because it's easily absorbed, causing the particles in that object (i.e our skin out in the day) to heat up. But infrared waves themselves aren't really "heat" i guess. If we're talking about heat travelling from one object to another, like convection/conduction, then you do need air the the vibrations to be passed along to adjacent particles, like sound.
@Mugetsuism9 жыл бұрын
***** I just explained it lol. Infrared rays are em waves and they can travel through space. They are absorbed by stuff here causing it to heat up. But I don't know if infrared would be classed as heat..It's like how a microwave heats things up, but if you open it, it's not hot inside unlike an oven.
@archimago1129 жыл бұрын
***** You're right, heat is neither a wave nor anything else, it's just the movement of the particles, and this can be moved regardless of where it is
@StellarStarGaming3 жыл бұрын
he's making it seem like teleportation is possible
@Interesting.For.Everyone8 жыл бұрын
This does not explain how WiFi works.
@soraminguyen93694 жыл бұрын
its what wifi IS
@FruititiousFruit4 жыл бұрын
@@soraminguyen9369 the title sais how does wifi work dude
@jayhart88473 жыл бұрын
He quickly mentions emr and then pisses off to the next subject. Worst explanation ever.
@redeye1183 жыл бұрын
Yeah I feel he just explained the EMS and what part of it WiFi uses
@Greyz1743 жыл бұрын
binary data is represented in the electromagnetic wave medium instead of how it is on your computer, then other computers (routers or the client computer) can read the binary data and now they have the binary data that was meant to be transferred from one computer to another what's not to understand
@DBear80082 жыл бұрын
My video buffered as soon as he said “…and your wifi is coming in strong”
@michael_zhou8 жыл бұрын
If we could see it, wouldn't it just be flashes, like blinking lights? Not visible spheres?
@AlexandrBorschchev Жыл бұрын
I always thought physics was counter intuitive because it did not make sense to me, but the more I gained knowledge about physics in general the more it slowly started to make any logical sense
@IndusaraJ2 жыл бұрын
simple but worthy
@Neueregel9 жыл бұрын
*A great new and informative video for a change !*
@datasamm9 жыл бұрын
Would WiFi work as a military application, in a broken building searching for enemies. The WiFi could perhaps calculate on and off bounces of moving objects and give you their location?
@j7ndominica0518 жыл бұрын
The signal is more like a donut than a dome or circus tent because the antenna isn't a point and is mostly directing the signal where its needed, around it not not into the sky. You came close to describing a microwave video sender, which replaces a composite cable, and could directly affect 'pixels' on a flat screen. Perhaps without going into the technical details, you could describe the wifi as a replacement for one shared cable, with collisions that arise when multiple devices try to transmit on it, and how the chosen frequency affects the range as wall penetration increases with wavelength. If the signal 'bumps' into antoher signal, it's corrupted, and not slowed down.
@DIRTDIVER8827 жыл бұрын
funny cause my wifi buffered as he was explaining. couldn't tell if it was part of video or not lol
@kpopmember1233 Жыл бұрын
i dont remember anything before wifi??? thats incredible!!!!
@Zunty9 жыл бұрын
Great video as always, thanks for explaining this :)
@GregFoot9 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@georgiavanwyk23196 жыл бұрын
smile
@CaptChrispy9 жыл бұрын
It's like all the birds outside your window tweeting at the same time; or is it 'twittering'?
@mother-fng-bonswa36126 жыл бұрын
so your cache map, is like a open building area for your incoming wifi signal
@Aspire1988 жыл бұрын
'tell your pixels what to do' He should of prefaced that with 'so say for example, you're streaming a video' I still feel like there's a ton of information missing. He spent ages explaining what EM waves are and how they work, but very little time actually explaining how information is actually transferred and processed by wifi hardware
@picobyte9 жыл бұрын
If WiFi would be visible it would look not like A tent. Your router would look like a dull lamp shining around lighting all materials around it.
@SureyD9 жыл бұрын
As you started explaining how a Wi-Fi signal can be slowed down, the internet here did actually slow to the point of the video not playing. Funny coincidence.
@jjromoustadz21798 жыл бұрын
My computer screen pixels improved after watching this video...
@yulo90587 жыл бұрын
Without wifi... without youtube... im gona die
@johnbehneman15468 ай бұрын
Thank you so much
@MonsterSquid20064 жыл бұрын
That intro is top gun
@chenhayoun40723 жыл бұрын
Hello, here after 6 years, and I’m watching your video from my field, a bit of slow connection I have here but good content man!
@NiklasAdv9 жыл бұрын
ive been thinking that to, its blooooody awesome how far we have come if you think about it!
@orgminyak9 жыл бұрын
1:16 why does X-ray look longer than visible light? Not in scale?
@gownerjones29 жыл бұрын
There are measurements right above each wave...
@SimonVelazquez9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I noticed that too. The measurements are correct, but the scale is not.
@skotiskiller9 жыл бұрын
Simon V OBVIOUSLY! You cannot see things of 700 nanometers.
@skotiskiller8 жыл бұрын
Xrays have smaller legth but their frequence as a number is higher.
@kicktheajummasface92006 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter, I got the gist of it - now I'm at least smarter than those who nitpick at technicalities and fail to understand this is a 4 minute video on a very complex technology.
@abbymarquis17796 жыл бұрын
Technically everyone is in a field surrounded by man made walls...
@jm08a316 жыл бұрын
WiFi does not "control the pixels on your screen". What it does is gather all the signals in your house (and transmits some signals to your computer) via a WiFi router. Then, that router transmits and receives those signals on a higher frequency wave. In other words, it's the analog to a telephone pole transformer.
@sam-kx3ty2 жыл бұрын
man he is talking about the decoding process not the wave propagation aspect!!!!, listen well before you talk.
@benhbr9 жыл бұрын
Heat also doesn't need air to propagate. EM waves can transport heat just as atoms can. How else could the Sun heat Earth?
@Palifiox9 жыл бұрын
Half the available time on this clip was wasted telling us that Wi-Fi was a form of radio. I'm no expert but seriously, I already knew that.
@tman70227 жыл бұрын
thank you!
@PINGPONGROCKSBRAH9 жыл бұрын
I don't care about what frequency is or that it can't go through walls. I already know that stuff. What I came here hoping to learn is how that signal is turned into radio waves and then turned back into information.
@TopiasSalakka9 жыл бұрын
Ethernet > WiFi
@firstnamelastname47529 жыл бұрын
Just looking at your profile picture would have been enough for me to think "That's totally the kind of guy that has ethernet cables running all over his house, probably half-tucked under the carpet edges and duct taped around corners".
@zilecs989 жыл бұрын
Firstname Lastname he is gamer don't mind him
@MineCrafterCity8 жыл бұрын
+Firstname Lastname Lol my room is like a spiderweb of ethernet cables atm... Sometimes feels like a James Bond scene where they have to not touch the red lasers.
@NachiketVartak8 жыл бұрын
X-rays are shorter that visible light. Physics fail.
@elimalinsky70698 жыл бұрын
I also noticed the error. I think they confused microwave with x-ray.
@bigbenhebdomadarius62528 жыл бұрын
+Nachiket Vartak What got me was the notion that heat, i.e., electromagnetic radiation in the infrared spectrum cannot be radiated through a vacuum. Sheesh!
@elimalinsky70698 жыл бұрын
BigBen Hebdomadarius heat itself is not electomagnetic radiation, it's the collision of matter particles, which by this action emit small traces of infrared radiation. You need matter in the first place to conduct heat. Infrared radiation is the result of heat, not the cause of it.
@charliehenry7728 жыл бұрын
+BigBen Hebdomadarius he explains it as if you have never heard about any technology or the whole concept of frequencies
@dankstories35898 жыл бұрын
+BigBen Hebdomadarius shut up you're trying to sound smart but truly have no clue what they're talking about
@rhynoculous61686 жыл бұрын
Who else isn’t watching this in a field
@vishalbugata10 ай бұрын
Nowadays we check more than emails in the toilet😏
@AngusMcIntyre7 жыл бұрын
Wifi carries instructions for the pixels on your screen? Give me strength...
@Mercio27 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@pumpkingamebox8 жыл бұрын
a great and even more confusing explanation if 1 and 0
@getridofit39 жыл бұрын
I liked it better when the show was called Head Squeeze with James May
@BRHD4139 жыл бұрын
Jolly good video, chaps!
@ZaXo009 жыл бұрын
Funny that I had to watch this video in 144p, because my wi-fi signal is currently absolute junk :D
@Zer0Mem0ry7 жыл бұрын
Could this be more inaccurate in terms of physics and computer science, this is way too over simplified. "Wifi is type of electromagnetic radiation" "Wifi is carrying information to your computer to tell it what to do for each pixel on the screen"
@callumheyes41717 жыл бұрын
So you expect him to make a detailed video to people who don't spend their life on C+? kk
@Zer0Mem0ry7 жыл бұрын
Arnold Trump How is C++ related to this? Information in this video is simply misleading.
@callumheyes41717 жыл бұрын
1) C++ and Wifi both links to computer technology. 2) He simplified it to ensure people with less knowledge understands it. He *doesn't* need to go into detail because that is irrelevant. Why would he go into talking about how the output of screens work?
@cline740006 жыл бұрын
Ok tech nazi. This is called vulgarisation and this is actually super helpeful to make people with no particular background understand the basics of a subject.
@rabimoshehizskiaavnergolde31956 жыл бұрын
this is different, they say pixels on screen when actually its just carrying bits (010101).
@Cam-mu1xi4 жыл бұрын
I‘m soooo happy God made those people who invented it
@vaishviksatyam8 жыл бұрын
amazing !!!! thanks buddy
@man_on_wheelz9 жыл бұрын
I NEED SOME WIFI PAINT!!!
@playstore-er1pj4 жыл бұрын
thank u very helpful
@foxmod63862 жыл бұрын
Great Video!!!
@jaromanda9 жыл бұрын
How come I know LESS now than before I watched this?
@a_potato_salad52104 жыл бұрын
10/10
@KevinGeneFeldman7 жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me what mechanical function actually sends these signals and how thats done?
@yayayaya9319 жыл бұрын
I like the way you simplified Binary with On/Off but you'll have to explain Binary in detail for people to understand...
@frosty93929 жыл бұрын
Everyone knows it's little wizards we trap in boxes
@94cathaloc3 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this on the toilet
@LamboSavage9 жыл бұрын
In a field? How about a frac site in North Dakota on my iPhone using a wifi jet pack? Take that!
@lawlietwinter8 жыл бұрын
Put subtitles in the videos for someone like me that is learning english! Thanks
@McHeisenburger8 жыл бұрын
At my house, it doesn't.
@gokwhozz97703 жыл бұрын
same.
@bevel17025 жыл бұрын
2:41 The GPU tells the computer what each pixel should be, not the WiFi data itself. The CPU will process the data that is sent via WiFi signals.
@shunnnie9 жыл бұрын
It might just be my lousy laptop monitor but I feel the white text is hard to read against the bright background
@R3bel029 жыл бұрын
More like lousy video editor.
@arianna34027 жыл бұрын
Hate to correct the video but WiFi doesnt travel at the speed of light. Thats why LiFi is being perfected for the general markets. LiFi is around 1000X the speed of WiFi, emits no radiation, remains more secure then WiFi and can even transmit signals in light soo dim we cant even detect it. LiFi is going to replace WiFi and will even be adapted to self driving cars and other autonomous machines. God i love LiFI
@Thundae5 жыл бұрын
if wifi is radiowaves then how come a burger doesnt need fries
@Djsj13132 ай бұрын
Wonka vision was the first WiFi lol
@Listopia108 жыл бұрын
good video for childrens under age of 8..........
@moremusss48477 жыл бұрын
i think our wifi isnt traveling at spedd of light its travelling at spedd of finger nail growth
@valisjan959 жыл бұрын
Heat doesn't need air or other medium to be spread. However it is true that part of the heat is spread by contact and by circulation, part of heat is transmitted via IR radiation which doesn't need anything to be transmitted. In fact air makes IR transmission less efficient.
@Dexduzdiz9 жыл бұрын
quality video there fella, cheers!
@ds0108703 жыл бұрын
When he said the force from Star Wars It immediatly got more interesting
@TheGeckoNinja8 жыл бұрын
so wifi info is like when someone is making binary beeping noises, but instead of beeps its waves?
@automaticmonkey9 жыл бұрын
Awkward moment when you are watching this in the middle of a field.
@stutzedward9 жыл бұрын
Good explanation
@jayyoutube87907 жыл бұрын
Dose wifi use the same signal that cordless phones use
@weskos9 жыл бұрын
So, maybe this is a stupid question, but I understand how waves propagate in a medium such as water or air, but where there is essentially "nothing", what is the medium through which EM waves propagate. We understand that space is not an "ether" as they used to think. It's not a "stuff" at all, but just saying they "don't need air" to propagate doesn't answer the question of what they might do need. Basically the question is waves in what? Even saying "quantum foam" doesn't actually answer that question, because it all comes back to it being made out of space, which isn't a "thing".
@AymanB9 жыл бұрын
Well light is an EM wave and science has come up with the "photon" as the light "particle" ... Electrical field + Magnetic field, coupled together. Not really "moving" or "travelling", simply existing in the form of waves and permeating the universe wherever there are electrical charges (moving and static) to generate them. Quantum physics however prefers to speak of "particles". The question isn't easy at all, nor is it stupid in my view. Trying to understand how the other 3 fundamental forces of the universe 'act' or are applied is equally mentally challenging.
@weskos9 жыл бұрын
Ayman B. Thanks. A couple things you said clarified it for me.
@rBennich6 жыл бұрын
Are you seriously suggesting that wifi signals could bump into each other? Try turning on two flashlights and see if you can do the same.
@bacon.cheesecake7 жыл бұрын
0:38 are you saying that it's not normal having cat.5 cables leading to the bathroom?
@Guuy8 жыл бұрын
I was watching this on my toilet
@Vortex_yzn3 жыл бұрын
5 years ago lmfaoo,how are you now😂
@Guuy3 жыл бұрын
@@Vortex_yzn still watching stuff on my toilet
@adrianhdragon7183 жыл бұрын
Initially should have started learning this at age 11...well went another path...but here am now in 2021...NEVER TO LATE EYE GUESS ;0)
@jessie16976 жыл бұрын
Those who disliked this video, either didn't complete their education or didn't attend school. Don't disrespect the knowledge he' giving out.
@ThanatosDem9 жыл бұрын
Why are X-Rays shown as having longer than visible light? (1:08) The given measurement is correct, but showing it as longer than visible light is rather confusing.
@cutcorner1008 жыл бұрын
Everything would not be blur as light is electromagnetic too. It would be blinding won't it?
@PaulNegoescu9 жыл бұрын
Heat is a result of the movement of particles but there you said that it can not travel without a medium. While that is essentially true it can be misleading as objects can be heated up using light (infrared) even in vacuum, thus heat can be transmitted through vacuum, not only physical contact with a medium made up out of particles. So I guess travelling is really a technicality since the energy itself can travel without a medium while the effect is only noticeable in actual matter.
@andrew43637 ай бұрын
“unlike heat” what infrared radiation is heat
@achitame23725 жыл бұрын
1:15 This what happens when you copy from friend in exam.....
@lemetamax4 жыл бұрын
I like the background music, what's the name?
@sammyjc899 жыл бұрын
What are those numbers that come up in the bottom corner of the screen randomly? I see it in almost every video but can't work out what they are for.