Wireless Router Signal Questions. (Dangerous?) Help please?
My Linksys Wireless-G 2.4ghz router sits on the floor of my room in the corner. My head is in the adjacent corner only about 5 or 6 feet away, but a foot or two more elevated.
My question is: Is this dangerous like they say cell phone radiation is, or is it safe to keep it on at all times? I have no security settings like a WEP or WAP and cannot change any settings because I do not have the password (I got the router used and the original owner forgot the password…). I’m not really worried about hackers though.
What I am worried about is the harmful radiation that could be emanating from the router (and are the 2 alarm clock/radios I have dangerous even when they aren’t searching for wireless signals?)
I suppose I COULD switch everything to wired but that’ll be more expensive and a lot less convenient. Not to mention a lot of work rewiring my entire setup…
So what do you recommend? I need professional opinions please… Is this as dangerous as a cell phone is…? =\
We discussed this recently, and I recommended some things you could do if you were worried about this matter. I didn’t give you my opinion about the risk, because that wasn’t what you asked.
Now that you ask, in my humble, mud-faced (but professional) opinion, it will not hurt you. I suspect there will be dissenting opinions.
Good luck!
When exposed to this freq. most times it will affect the eyes before anything else. I an a retires NASA Eng. and was once radiated with 6 GHZ. at 10 kw. All it did was black both eyes.
it’s not harmful. the signal strength from those routers are nothing compared to cell phones. If you are still worried about it, just unplug the router when you don’t need it.
No you shouldn’t worry. The energy of the EM waves are not that high to cause harm.
They are two types of radiation: Ionizing and Non-Ionizing…
Ionizing damages the body by damaging DNA by ionization or creating free radical reations.
Non-Ionizing radiation damages the body by heating/burning it. Wireless routers and cell phones are non-ionizing and their fields are so weak and small. You would need hell of alot to have any heating effect whatsoever.