the only reason i didn't eliminate the wireless from my place is because i'm pretty sure i'm not a POI and i have grounding mat under my desk anyway and there is only one device actually talking to it (and before that it would have just been sending a beacon 10x a second to announce its existence)

i'm pretty sure it wouldn't be hard for me to find a wired only gigabit router to put in place, and reading this stuff has made me stop and think quite hard about this. i almost don't use my mobile anyway, at all, i have three of these stupid things and the one i use is the lowest spec, shittiest one that is slow as molasses and main reason i keep it is because it is a rugged phone and i've preserved its battery by rooting it and using a charge regulator that keeps it at max 75%, as both of my other phones have somewhat bloated batteries because i literally never take them outside with me and they sat on chargers nonstop and the default regime fucks up the battery.

i'm really reluctant to spend any money i don't have to, but i can switch over to using a teensy thumb sized dumbphone for catching calls and SMS, such as a courier showing up to deliver something, and i'm pretty confident a device with a battery barely larger than a couple of dollar coins is going to have any kind of capacity to image anything, not to mention it's only 2g mobile capable.

gonna do it, i think. i don't think there is anything special about the optic router i have currently that i can't find a generic no-radio alternative to replace it. i quite like the idea of not having even that beacon if i don't have any wireless devices in the house.