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| 324416 | 2005-02-12 09:13:00 | I have a wireless home network (802.11b) and have a baby living in the house is the wireless gear safe??? Or is it in anyway a health risk, I also only have my computers aireal about 1m away from me is this safe??? | bluepoles (7281) | ||
| 324417 | 2005-02-12 09:30:00 | um..i've been wodering about this too.. execpt i don't have a baby and the ap is 1.5m away from me... |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 324418 | 2005-02-12 10:23:00 | the only seroius effect this is nown to coirse is cronik mispellimng. :@@: |
theother1 (3573) | ||
| 324419 | 2005-02-12 12:30:00 | I think you'd be better off being cautious with cellular phones than wireless networks. Wireless networks should be on a safe enough level - if they aren't then people around the world won't be too impressed. If you were getting into high-powered signal amplifiers I'd start to worry for sure. |
agent (30) | ||
| 324420 | 2005-02-12 17:19:00 | the FCC is pretty strict on outputs in the ISM band, ETSI is even stricter. and the MED (NZ's regulator of such things) tends to sit closer to the european side than the yankee side. It is true that long term exposure to 2.4GHz in large doses will probably be bad for you (WWII microwave operators who stood in front of their arrays to warm up arent doing so well ;) ), but provided you're running it at default, it's about 20 times less powerful than a cellphone transceiver, far into the safety margin. In fact in some areas of the world, the normal background radiation is at a more harmful level than the wifi equipment itself. In most homes, leaking radiation from a microwave oven is more harmful... Dont be an idiot and plug in a 500mW amp (blanket beatings in itself) and a 24dBi antenna, keep it running at default and dont physically sit on it for 18 hours a day and it wont be a problem. Here's a start on your reading trek: www.fcc.gov |
whetu (237) | ||
| 324421 | 2005-02-12 22:51:00 | Its interesting put an off station transitor radio near differant devices and hear the interference... hardrive, keyboard, answer phone, TV, fluorescent lights etc The dirtiest electromagnetic field in my place is the automatic washing machine...strangly enough. I turn it off at the wall now. You would want to stick the baby away from walls with cables in them, and not just through the wall from a washing machine or TV. We are soaking in EM pollution, the results of which will transpire in due course presumably. The cosmic rays that stream through all the time don't bare thinking about :) Pete |
Organicpete (133) | ||
| 324422 | 2005-02-12 23:41:00 | Thanks for all the info me, my mum and my dad can stop worrying now :rolleyes: | bluepoles (7281) | ||
| 324423 | 2005-02-13 08:13:00 | ahh..me too..now i feel that i'm paranoid.. anywayz..jz on a side note...how do u check for microwave leackage anyway? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 324424 | 2005-02-13 08:53:00 | All you ever wanted to know about microwave ovens: www.amasci.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 324425 | 2005-02-13 13:27:00 | I couldn't be bothered reading through all that semi-serious bumph on that link ( Sorry, zquerty) but the short answer to the dangers of leakage from our microwave ovens is supposed to be nil. I was concerned about that once myself, as were many others. "Consumer" magazine checked it out way back & reassured me. (Can't remember the date. Maybe Google if interested..?) If you have faith in NZ's best watchdog, that should be enough. If you're paranoid about radiation, I'm sure there's a website somewhere to pander to that. Depends on whose opinion you trust... |
Laura (43) | ||
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