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    Do WiFi adapters emit radiation?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by JWBlue, Feb 13, 2014.

  1. JWBlue

    JWBlue Notebook Deity

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    Did a Google search and nothing.
     
  2. ThatOldGuy

    ThatOldGuy Notebook Virtuoso

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    Lol, you get more radiation from the Sun than any electronics. If your really worried about it get a Geiger counter.
     
  3. TFK

    TFK Notebook Consultant

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    I wouldnt worry about all that bull...... thats passing around as information nowadays. If you can't handle minimal amounts of radiation from electronics, you should be removed from the gene pool such that your faulty genes dont carry on to further generations :p
     
  4. Jarhead

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    Do WiFi devices emit radiation? Of course they do, that's how they communicate!

    Now, if this radiation will hurt you? Hahahahaha, no. As far as I know, WiFi doesn't emit ionizing radiation (which is the dangerous type of radiation), and you'd be in much greater harm standing outside on a sunny day, or even eating a banana.
     
  5. ConradGoodman

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    A software engineer at a firm I used to work for submitted a helpdesk ticket once.

    I'd just installed a bunch of HP APs throughout the site, and he was worried about his health. He wanted a full risk assessment carried out on the use of this technology.

    He also had a mobile phone in his pocket with a 3G signal.
     
  6. Towlieee

    Towlieee Notebook Geek

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    Low powered common adapters aren't really a concern.

    You start running 1w+ wifi adapters with directional antenna's, I personally wouldn't have them aimed in my direction for daily use!
     
  7. Peon

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    Any increase in cancer risk arising from the use of modern technology is more than made up for by much larger increases in life expectancy brought about by the use of the same modern technology...

    Between dying from cancer at 90, which is common today, and dying from tuberculosis at 55, which was common a century ago, I'd say my overall chances of living longer are much better today, in spite of all this pervasive "radiation" that seems to terrify people.
     
  8. Jarhead

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    Common technology doesn't even emit ionizing radiation (the dangerous kind), so anyone that's scared of it I simply dismiss as being ignorant of basic science at best and looney at worst.