Comments on: Stealth Computer boasts waterproof desktop

Stealth Computer releases waterproof PC

[Roger7273]

That's awesome!! That PC will go good with my fireproof ioSafe hard drive. Check out the crazy burn video.
http://www.iosafe.com/iosafe-solo-ces-news

[niko_osokin]

Now I can finally please my geeky mermaid girlfriend.

[paulimusmaximus]

Geez, it's about time. My passion is scuba diving, but I'm so busy with work all the time that I never get to go. Now, I can combine the two. Does anyone know if wifi signals go through water?

[viper396]

"Does anyone know if wifi signals go through water? "

No. WiFi and most other radio signals do not travel far very underwater.

Only Very Low Frequencies (VLF) travel thru water but you need a massive antenna and a huge amount of transmitting power to get any range. Submarines have to go shallow just to receive a VLF signal but they cannot transmitt on VLF. They have to raise an antenna above surface to reply using normal frequencies.

[EALChilazr]

Finally my Beta fish will have it's own PC! Before, I've had to buy a new computer every time he needed to check his facebook!

[Denebola42]

I suppose this could come in handy if you worked at marine world....or maybe it could work well if you had some kind of fancy setup on a boat...Man... I bet Jacques Cousteau would have loved this!

[zgreenwell]

IT'S ON A BOAT!

[infosuperhighway]

I feel like I need to pee.

[nikbballer214]

Sweet this will go well in my underwater office

[Csipa1]

I've been using pcs since 1995 and I none of them ever got any water damage

1) ? why ?

2) really good comments (humor) and truth (Csipa1)

3) "Does anyone know if wifi signals go through water?" don't know the exact answer, but have a hypothesis: since water is an electrical conductor & also affects light, wi-fi should be able to be conducted through it (I would think POSSIBLY even amplified)

4) not sure I'd want to try a desktop under water though (the whole "water is an electrical conductor" thing)

[viper396]

3)..the answer is No. The very fact that water is an electrical conductor, salt water being more so, makes it a very very poor medium for transmiting radio or WiFi.