Are wireless routers harmful for you?
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No. They have a very low wattage of radiation, far below what would be harmful.
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I doubt it. Most wireless problems turn out to be signal strength problems, interference issues, or bad security configuration.
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There are various ways of setting up security on routers, you can change the default password for login, disable the broadcast of the SSID, setup various wireless security, Linksys has very good tech support so call them for assistance or check out their knowledge base as well
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Every mobile phone has a transmitter and a reciever in it, the signals orperate by microwave. The disruption of the microwaves passing through your brain to the reciever and out again to transmit can make you more likely to have tumors. The waves can disrupt your DNA sequence which is what starts tumors developing. It's the same sort of principle for living too close to powerlines, prolonged exposure can be dangerous. They can sometime interfere with electronics the same way but instead of tumors they creat signal blockages. That is why you're asked to turn them off on flights.
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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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Those are probably control packets from your provider that they use to determine your status. Unless someone else is connected to your cable or modem, they shouldn't be able to steal your bandwidth. A wi-fi network would allow people to access your connection if you haven't set the router to prevent unauthorized access.
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You can if you do not take the neccessary steps to guard against hackers or internet theives.  You have to make sure you setup your WEP key when setting up any kind of wireless access.  This way the user will have to have the key to get on.  If you want to get more granular, then don;t broadcast and put in the connection for your laptop manually.  These are some ways to stop you from getting hacked.
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Actually, yes, they can. The firmware of a router can be updated (essentially it's own little operating system) and can indeed be infected with a virus because of that. However they are extraordinarily rare, and not many routers are susceptible to the few that are out there. If you're concerned that it may have happened to you, you can reset your router back to it's factory defaults. How you do so depends on the router, check your router's manual. Doing this will wipe out all your settings, along with any virus that may be present. Again though, this is very, very rare. The odds of your router having a virus are extremely slim.
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This has nothing to do with your choice of browser. You are loosing your signal from your router. There are several reasons this can happen. If you just have poor signal all the time, check into relocating the wireless adapter or router to improve signal or add a high gain antenna. The other possibility is interference from another wireless device or microwave etc etc. Often this can be corrected by changing to a different channel on your router and wireless adapter. Also instead of rebooting try right clicking on the wireless connection ICON and click repair.
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turn them off.\nok more seriously, if you are most worried about outside "attacks" then take all the basic precautions you do for a virus on one computer and you probably want to look into a firewall.  alot of routers out there now have good built in "hardware" firewalls as well which work well.\npassword protect things, encryption.\nif you are running wireless you can turn on encryption and password protect it...though personally i'm against this, i have a real issue with broadcasting something out into the air and not sharing it with neighbors.  call me crazy, my phone is corded and my wireless network is called "free and open" and i haven't had any problems at all.  then again there isn't much on my puter that i wouldn't share with someone anyway or that is worth the effort of trying to get off it without my permission.  and nobody has really sucked up so much bandwidth that its caused me any problems.
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There must be a source of interference or the distance is too long, most wireless routers have a maximum distance for usage. Check your equipment manual, if you don't have it search it in the manufacturer's web site. It is possible that your equipment has a failure.
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This Wireless piece of...well... ok Print Server has always had issues.\n\nJust a thought on wireless in general, but I'm kind of dissapointed, that even though wireless tech has been around for years it is still dreadfully unreliable in critical applications such as print serving, or even network gaming. \n\nI can have my laptop, or desktop w/ wireless 2 feet from my router w/ a clear line of sight, and it will still have issues, and thats with upto date, decent 802.11G hardware. :( \n\nI'm not saying its worthless by any means, It does work just fine for spuratic network tasks (Internet surfing/email) but for any app where a releatively constant stream of data needs to be sent it seems to drop the ball alot still. I think that consumer level wi-fi vendors should focus on reliability a bit more.
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You need a wireless router.
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Check out this link and follow the suggestions.\nhttp://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelesssecurity/tp/wifisecurity.htm
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The range of a wireless router depends on the brand of router,its location,how many walls,interference from other equipment etc...\nYou can buy booster antenna for some brands but 2 miles for a off the shelf router?I can reach mine from about 50 yards on a good day.
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It may cause less problems if you are static, but if you are using a laptop you won't be as free as you think.  I would let the ISP pick the IP that you get...Dynamic.
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read your instrustion booklet , my son did and he was getting on the internet all over the dang place with his psp. You dont need your own wireless modem, you just need to be near one, anyones, and they dont even have to know.\n\nby the way, thats why they were designed the way they were, so you could use them anywhere. Its not stealing when the waves get sent all over the neighborhood. I know kids who sit outside the library and use theirs cause the library wont let them use it inside, but they cant  stop them from sitting outside and using it. lots of colleges and McDonalds are offering stronger signals so all customers can hook in for free with their psps and portable computers. So, use it without guilt anywere you can find a signal. If the people are so against your picking up the free signals they will lock their signal, and thats their business if they want to do that.