is wireless signals bad for health?

If the router is very close to the user (on the table) and is always on, is it bad for the health?

 

If you are worried about a wireless router, than you should be more concerned about microwave overs, cell phones, cordless phones, pagers, baby monitors, bluetooth, tvs, radios, and remote controls. Not to mention power towers, cell phone towers, broadcasting towers ect.

No, the waves bounce off the body and are not absorbed into it.

The only time it becomes dangerous to organic organisms is when it's amplified enough to pass through the beings tissue/cells. All devices must undergo thorough testing by the FCC among other agencies before they are allowed to be brought into the consumer market.


They must also recieve signals from the U.S. D.O.D. shared on the same wave length/ band. All these devices are borrowing the frequencies that are owned by the government. Radio and television are the exception as they run on different bands, however they too must still accept incomming transmissions from the D.O.D. (Department Of Defense) as with any consumer electronic device.

Some examples of consumer wireless:

Including but not limited to:

Wireless ABGN + Waves
Bluetooth Radio Waves
Radio Waves
Television Waves
Cellphone Radiation Waves
Infared Radiation Waves
Microwave Radiation Waves


So in short, the only way your health will be effected is if you are pulsing any of the above waves through your body on a constant basis, or if you have a medical device which the waves pass through which can cause interferance, (e.x. pacemaker)

 

Anyone else have input? I realize that the FCC has to certify these products as safe but what are they really doing... they're picking some limit to the amount of radiation that is considered "safe". I believe cellular networks, WLAN and Bluetooth all use a similar frequency band but emit differing amounts of power. Cellular range is longest = most power emission, bluetooth range is short = least power emission. Yeah, I use wireless all the time but I'm a little wary of having it right in my lap.

 

Wireless is pretty safe.

We should be more worried about wireless terrorists stealing our wifi =D

 

Unless you hold the wireless antennas up to your body, like you do with cell phones, the power being absorbed is minimal. Try to place the router as far away from human traffic as possible. Distance is the best defense against radio wave radiation.

 

I'd be more worried about the sun.

 

I read on news that some teachers in school started experiencing migraine after they installed wireless. The teachers could sense when the wireless is on / off. One of them could even locate the wireless device!

My AP is about 2 feet away from the pillow off my bed. Been sleeping like that for the past yr and seems fine. However after reading that news I've moved the AP to another room. I seem to have sleep slightly better but it is most probably a placebo effect. Just my imagination

 

We currently manufacture 120000 chemicals and get 5000 new ones every year. Wireless may be dangerous but it is a small part of what you are exposed to and you can do something about the chemicals you are exposed to.

 

"Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks"

Check this news out and you'll know why.

 

I'm not surprised. Our FCC, like the FDA, is pressured by the companies that produce the devices to allow them. Probably only minimal testing is done.

 

Unlike wireless routers, most of the things on your list do not transmit ALL the time. Remore control is an infrared line of sight signal, BTW, not radio signal. And the battery lasts about a year - which should tell you it rarely on. Microwave/ is yours actually transmitting all day - or for about 3 mins total? You get the idea.

I myself, I do turn off the wireless when I am not using it. If you have little kids in your house, I would say you have a responsibilty to do that, even if just to be sure.