wireless, safe or not?

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I read in a paper (i think it was the sentinel, local papaer for staffordshire) that head teachers want wireless out of schools until they have checked wether it has any side effects.
As far as i am aware though, they run off a very high frequency radio wave (2.4GHZ i think). If this is the case then surely they're safe. The radio runs off this (although a much lower frequency i think) and remote control cars run off this (27mhz, 40mhz and 2.4ghz). Just seems a no brainer really.
Or is there something more to the wireless?
 
Microwave ovens also run at 2.4Ghz and we all know that they are not safe.

However, you are right. All the frequency is actually damaging, it's in such a small dosage as to be hardly worth bothering about.

It does warm the testes up though! :)
 
There was a documentary on tv about this a while ago, they run various tests using radiation detectors.

They tested the radiation levels 200-300m away from mobile phone masts (in different areas, at different times) took down the results. They then tested a school which had wifi hotspots, they took readings again in different area's.

The results showed that although the wifi radiation was not constant (spiking up and down when data was being transferred), it was conciderably higher than the radiation being produced by the phone mast.
 
I think the main concern was its use in schools as childrens skulls are not fully developed so are more prone to adverse affects of this type of radiation. and also the proximity of the child to the aerial when using a computer.
 
J.B said:
I think the main concern was its use in schools as childrens skulls are not fully developed so are more prone to adverse affects of this type of radiation. and also the proximity of the child to the aerial when using a computer.
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I dont see why schools need wireless tbh, I mean its been a while since I was in school, I dont know how there infrustrucure has been set-up. But i wouldnt have thought every student will have a laptop, will they? as for workstations, why would they need wireless?
 
[Sniper][Wolf] said:
The results showed that although the wifi radiation was not constant (spiking up and down when data was being transferred), it was conciderably higher than the radiation being produced by the phone mast.
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Inverse square law, and all that. Most seem happy to let their kids stick a 2W mobile transmitter next to their brain, but they're worried about a sub 100mW Wi-Fi transmission that's nearly a metre away?

Wi-Fi has nowhere near the power levels of a mobile phone.
 
Our's is for teachers primarily. 6th form students are welcome to bring theirs in and just have to login to the school proxy when browsing web.
 
i read somewhere they did a test in a classroom, where wifi was on 1 week of the next and they asked if people had headaches etc and they where convinced the week without wifi was the one with it, imo its nothing to worry about.

microwave ovens use a 2.4ghz signal yes, but thats like 600+ watts which is why its shielded so none gets out, and mobile phones (2w) right next to ears are perfectly fine with most people, but people arent even close to the WAY less powerful transmitter of wifi and people complain about it?
 
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[Sniper][Wolf] said:
I dont see why schools need wireless tbh, I mean its been a while since I was in school, I dont know how there infrustrucure has been set-up. But i wouldnt have thought every student will have a laptop, will they? as for workstations, why would they need wireless?
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If you have it, it will get used. Laptops are increasingly used in classrooms - imagine having a ton of Cat5 cables to get damaged, lost, and tripped over. Being able to grab a laptop and a projector and only need power and be able to give a presentation on any plain wall in a building with online content can't be a bad thing.
 
my router is in my bedroom and i mainly use my laptop in the living room (2 floors down from the router).
Is it dangerous having the router in my bedroom as i presme (while it is still on) it is still emitting the wireless signal. So wifi is safe?
someone says about using it once a week, but i use it everyday, is this a problem?
 
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