Is Wi-Fi safe?

peterbaker

It's the middle of the night and I can "see" no less than seven Wi-Fi routers broadcasting into my flat at signal strength varying from Weak to Excellent.

That doesn't include networks with Hidden SSID which I can't so easily detect.

I am going to try to sleep in a few minutes. How might my sleep patterns be affected by all this surplus and totally wasted energy in the ether about my head?

penrhyn

You could try an aluminium foil helmet.
I found this report on an early study.

nearlyrich

Try this to see how dangerous they are:

Place a ready meal on your bedside cabinet, if it's cooked in the morning line your flat walls with lead:rolleyes:

I will get my coat:o

Need_More_Money_2

peterbaker wrote: »

It's the middle of the night and I can "see" no less than seven Wi-Fi routers broadcasting into my flat at signal strength varying from Weak to Excellent.

That doesn't include networks with Hidden SSID which I can't so easily detect.

I am going to try to sleep in a few minutes. How might my sleep patterns be affected by all this surplus and totally wasted energy in the ether about my head?

Do you mean how will you sleep be affected by wasting time worrying about it?

peterbaker

Need_More_Money wrote: »

Do you mean how will you sleep be affected by wasting time worrying about it?

I generally sleep like a log but I fear a small number of people have had night-time epilepsy triggered by the fog of extraneous EMR that we suffer thesedays.

I even fear that some people whose brain function and physiology was prone to it may have died in their sleep as a result.

I don't know how Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compare with mobile phone networks and EMR from overhead HT lines. No one seems to have done much work on it.

I do remember the team of students who took a barrow load of fluorescent lighting tubes and planted them under power lines at night creating an interesting blue swathe of light with no apparent physical electrical connection to the tubes.

Anyone know the energy levels involved?

If your neighbour or your mobile telephone company demanded the right to route an electrical circuit via your left ear and right ear then you would say no, wouldn't you?

Most of you probably had no idea that it has long been theoretically quite possible to transmit energy from power stations to homes and businesses without using wires. There are all sorts of reasons why it wasn't done - not least because the electricity company would not be able to measure your consumption and charge you for what you used!

However, we do now have a variant of it for free because although we can't actually measure the energy values easily, we can measure the information flow and get charged that way. Question is, what harm does it do to be constantly leaking all this extraneous energy?

For a start, the power adapter on the wireless router gets quite warm. Is the energy lost in heat from it more or less than the energy transmitted from the aerials?

How easily we dismiss things we cannot see or feel.

superscaper

I think you're being way too paranoid, the energy levels involved are very small, and in terms of health effects they're much smaller than the effects of ionizing radiation, but I'd like to see you stop carbon-14 decay or the Sun to stop shining.

Need_More_Money_2

superscaper wrote: »

I think you're being way too paranoid, the energy levels involved are very small, and in terms of health effects they're much smaller than the effects of ionizing radiation, but I'd like to see you stop carbon-14 decay or the Sun to stop shining.

And people are generally way too paranoid about ionising radiation too

superscaper

Need_More_Money wrote: »

And people are generally way too paranoid about ionising radiation too

I know, if they were SO bad then we'd all have to permanently live in dark caves. Although even then, how would you escape the radiation from your own body?

Need_More_Money_2

superscaper wrote: »

I know, if they were SO bad then we'd all have to permanently live in dark caves. Although even then, how would you escape the radiation from your own body?

Or the radiation from the rocks?

We had a thread on this a while ago, but essentially there is no evidence of harm from low level radiation

superscaper

Need_More_Money wrote: »

Or the radiation from the rocks?

We had a thread on this a while ago, but essentially there is no evidence of harm from low level radiation

The only large studies done so far indicate that low level radiation actually reduces the risk of cancer. The only hypothesis is that the low level radiation occasionally switches on defensive cancer fighting genes.

Need_More_Money_2

superscaper wrote: »

The only large studies done so far indicate that low level radiation actually reduces the risk of cancer. The only hypothesis is that the low level radiation occasionally switches on defensive cancer fighting genes.

Ah, you've read the same things as me!