turn off wi-fi-how to ?

volks400

after watching panorama last night i need to switch off my wi-fi from modem/router. its a Sweex 11g make, i cant seem to find any options to switch off wireless and it shows in my windows wireless network . im back on rj cables and dont need wireless anymore especially after watching panorama. i know ppl will have different views but im off wi-fi. so plz anyone help me switching it off.

superscaper

You should be able to disable it in the router's settings using your browser. Have to say the whole wifi being dangerous is just the same media hysteria based on nothing that the MMR fiasco was.
Ethernet is always preferable just for security/speed/and simplicity. Wireless should only be used when there's no practical alternative but there's as much of a health risk with wifi as there is with the radio waves we've all been permeated with since the day we were born (ie not even measurable).

Stephen_Leak

In the past week I have provided wireless access to one of our networks at the school where I work - ie. about 10 wireless access points strategically positioned about the school. They are in the suspended ceilings, and the ones on the lower ground and ground floors also cover the ground and first floors respectively, so they don't need to be above each other on both floors.

I am already awaiting the first complaints of long-term health problems due to the prolonged exposure to these. I intend to take these very seriously and will therefore require evidence, from the victim's general practitioner, that their symptoms are not due to their mobile 'phone.

albertross_2

The OP wants to stop their brain being fried, not make the network secure.

superscaper

Also switching off the wireless is pointless for health reasons if there are other wireless networks (which there probably will be). I'd suggest turning your house into a Faraday cage, EM-SEC have developed a paint that will stop wireless signals (primarily meant for security but it will work the opposite way round as well and prevent signals "getting in" http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2186428/wireless-blocking-paint

Stephen_Leak

albertross wrote: »

The OP wants to stop their brain being fried, not make the network secure.

Oops! Maybe I got too close to one of them ...

mjr600

Radio waves have been floating around the atmosphere and reaching into space for over 100 years without complaints.

My mate was a radar op in the RAF, before 'manouvres' with the ladies of West Germany he tells me he he would zap his gonads with a dose of microwaves to ensure there were no little radio ops in nine months. He tells me it worked every time but had no long term effects having gone on to father two healthy kids.

I dare not risk resting my tackle on the router ! Imagine explaining that one away.

Stephen_Leak

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "love spuds".

When I was at BT, the engineers did have to be very careful when working on the microwave transmission dishes. Mind you, these were only slightly less powerful than the phaser banks of a Constitution class starship.

seaweasel

Oh here we go again. Listen to these last posters, they're providing real world examples of the physics that proves you're being paranoid. You can't live in a bubble. If you're worried, read up on it and prove it to yourself, however you're doing far more harm to the education of our children by letting stupid people remove wifi from schools than anything your wireless router could do to you.

Bear in mind, you could trip over an ethernet cable. That's far more dangerous than low power non-ionising radiation.

superscaper

seaweasel wrote: »

Bear in mind, you could trip over an ethernet cable. That's far more dangerous than low power non-ionising radiation.

I've done that more than once, and it hurt an awful lot more than when I stood next to the pool of high level radioactive waste at Sellafield, which was completely safe because it was under 2 metres of water.

I completely agree, if you're afraid of something, far better to try and understand it first rather than act hastily and irrationally.

Alfie_E

albertross wrote: »

The OP wants to stop their brain being fried, not make the network secure.

Just don’t use the antenna to clean out your ears.

A major concern with mobiles has been the fact you put the hand-held device next to your head. The same logic would suggest you need only be careful with wi-fi devices you put next to your head, such as phones that can make Internet telephone calls using wi-fi.