Could exposure to Wi-Fi wireless routers affect health?
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In a word, NO.  Now, in a much longer paragraph... :-)  After many years of study, there's not any conclusive evidence that exposure to WiFi (RF frequencies) has any effect whatsoever on living things and there are generally no health concerns, even if you placed your access point under your pillow.  RF exposure involves frequency, power and the duration of the exposure.  The human body most efficiently absorbs radio frequencies in the 30 to 300MHz range, and WiFi is at 2.4GHz.  So not only is the frequency much different, but WiFi products have strict power and RF emmissions requirements, such as 100 milliwatts maximum output power.  Plus, the WiFi RF energy is not "ionizing radiation" like it is UV light and Xrays, so WiFi frequencies pose no danger to human DNA the way prolonged sunlight UV rays cause skin cancers... What is actually of more concern is the RF energy from nearby FM radio stations!  (But they've been around much longer than WiFi, studied extensively, and again, nothing conclusive about any health concerns.)
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1.  You can spend too much time online.\n2.  While browsing the web while in the tub, you could drop your notebook in and get a mild 12v shock.\n3.  You could fall down the stairs while wandering around while browsing the web.\n\nAny # of scenarios are possible, I guess.\n\nWLAN uses similar frequency to cordless phone, really haven't heard of many health issues.
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i think no because if waves did effect the body then you should use wireless phones or t v antennas or radio
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i would also go the wireless Internet route.  while morally, ethically and maybe illegal in your area, it is easy to do.  most people leave their wireless connection wide open.
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Cell phones and pagers, part of the technological revolution that was supposed to liberate everyone, is tethering people to their jobs to an unprecedented degree, to the point where family life is suffering.\nThe research, by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociologist Noelle Chesley, appears in the December issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.\n\n\n"The use of cell phones and pagers was linked to increased distress and a decrease in family satisfaction over time," said Chesley, an assistant professor of sociology. "There is clearly a link between using the technology and experiencing increased access."\n\n\nFor the study, Chesley interviewed working couples over two time periods -- from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. She found that between the interview periods, the use of cell phones and pagers decreased family satisfaction and increased distress and negative work-to-family and family-to-work spillover.\n\n\n"These technologies are linked to negative experiences and feelings from the workplace spilling over into the home," Chesley said. "We are becoming more accessible, which is letting in more of the bad than the good."\n\n\n"Women get kind of a double whammy," she added. "For women, in addition to having a lot of this stuff from work spill over into home life, they get the opposite. There is also a lot of negative stuff from home spilling over into the workplace."\n\n\nChesley thinks that better management of cell phone use is needed to reduce the stress effect she uncovered. Perhaps employers and employees should set limits on reaching each other to allow time for more positive family interaction, she suggested.\n\n\n"The question is, are these technologies helping us or hurting us in our daily life," Chesley asked. "The results of this study indicate that technology may not be so great."\n\n\nOne expert thinks the findings support the idea that cell phones are changing culture -- and not necessarily for the better.\n\n\n"These findings seem to support my intuitions about how cell phones affect our daily lives -- blurring boundaries between work and family life because of increased accessibility," said Tate Kubose, a cognitive scientist at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.\n\n\n"They also support the notion that we should really appreciate our women more, as they seem to shoulder a lot of the burden, even in marriages where both spouses work," he added.
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It is not certain that any risks to human health actually exist. Concerns exist because the antennas of these phones deliver much of their RF energy to very small volumes of the user's body \n\n----\nOn the other hand, if you use a cell phone without a head set while driving there is considerable danger of getting involved in an accident.
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There is no good scientific evidence to support this claim. The American Cancer Society is not aware of any strong epidemiologic studies reporting a statistical association between breast cancer risk and antiperspirant use. \n\nTo the contrary, a carefully-designed epidemiologic study of this issue published in 2002 compared 813 women with breast cancer and 793 women without the disease found no relationship between breast cancer risk and antiperspirant use, deodorant use, or underarm shaving. Likewise, we are not aware of any evidence that aluminum or any of the other chemicals in antiperspirants are mutagenic (cause DNA damage that can lead to cancer). Products such as antiperspirants are rigorously tested and evaluated by the FDA before they can be marketed. \n\nAnother study published in 2003 reported that women who used underarm antiperspirant and shaved their underarms tended to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age than women who do not. However, the study design did not include a control group of women without breast cancer and has been criticized by experts as not relevant to the safety of these underarm hygiene practices. It is likely that in general, young women are more likely than elderly women to shave their underarms, regardless of whether they later develop breast cancer. This is a more likely explanation of the researchersÂ’ findings than the suggestion that these practices cause cancer.
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There are also many wireless hotspots in airports and malls
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Wireless connection can be affected by several factors, such as Speed Enemies, which can greatly interrupt your wireless signals. Examples are cellphones, some antenna equipments (Radio or TV) and even solid walls.\n\nTry situating the router nearer to your desktop, you should also check the security settings of your router to ensure that no one is hopping on your internet connection, this definitely slows down your speed. Use MAC filtering if there is and password-protect your connection with a 128-bit WEP key. Disable broadcast of SSID to avoid it being seen by free-riders.\n\nHope it helps...
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if you have no password protection on your wireless router it could well be that the neighbours have been enjoying using your broadband connection...it sounds like you may have been "shaped" by your ISP ...what they do is shape your usage down to dial up speeds if you have exceeded your download limit for the month..check with your ISP if this is indeed the case..then make sure you put a password on your router!!
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Damage to the human organism is dependent on frequency, distance to the source, and transmit power (in Watts)\n\nSee the following:
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I doubt this is the case because network wires are usually run in small bundles.  In theory this might be a problem if the ENTIRE wall was layered with them from top to bottom.  Sporadic shielded wiring runs wouldn't do much to disrupt cell signals.  It's more likely that the cause of your interferance is your buldings layer(s) of concrete or brick.
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Ive never really heard about infrared causing any health problems, but at the same time, it is radiation coming from those little things (miniscule if im not mistaken). I think you'll be ok as long as your not like, pointing the remote control at your eye and pressing the button day or night.
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as its wireless u can do wondor with it may be it wifi or any other radio frequency skypme me for more mastnitin
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check your wireless router software
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It varies way too much to say for certain. Depends on how hard  you're working your hard drive, cpu, how bright you have the screen, etc. Also wireless cards use up a LOT of power, turning it off when it's not needed will save you a lot
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It is possible to intercept wireless communications with various devices; however, it is unlikely that this would be the cause of mail taking a long time to reach a recipient.\n\nI'm assuming that the wireless communication is from a wireless card in a laptop to a wireless hub/router that then goes to some ISP like a cable provider.\n\nThink of it this way .. your computer is 'talking out loud' to the wireless router, so someone or something could 'hear' it, but this doesn't slow down the conversation between your computer and the wireless router.\n\nIt's just like if you're talking across the room to a friend, then anyone else in the room can hear the conversation, but that doesn't cause your voice to reach your friend more slowly.\n\nThere are other things that could cause this slowness.  Some of them innocent, like your internet provider or their internet provider is slow or busy, etc.\n\nSome of them not-so-innocent, like there is a program installed on your computer that captures all of your activity before allowing it to be sent through your wireless card to go to your internet provider.  This seems a bit unlikely, simply because that is not how monitoring software usually works (at least not good ones).  The better monitoring software programs are difficult to detect and work very hard to conceal themselves and their activity.\n\nSome ways to test would be to connect to your hub/router/acceses point with an ethernet cable to see if using the wired port is any different than the wireless port.  You could also use the newest spyware/adware scanners to see if they can detect any odd programs, especially monitoring programs.