Wifi Saftey

[Eoghan mulligan]

Is wifi safe to use, and or bluetooth. 

[ThatOneRussian]

yes. But dont look at dank memes

[AlwaysFSX]

No, they cause cancer.

:l

[lani100]

Is wifi safe to use, and or bluetooth. 

What?

[ThatOneRussian]

Wat

[Naeaes]

It's on you.

 

You pick the encryption methods and passwords. Everything can be hacked but you can make it too difficult and time consuming for it to be beneficial. Even thou Bluetooth allows less customization, the same goes for it. Turn it off when you don't need it and so on.

[Eoghan mulligan]

I meant in terms of health not hackings

[mluton]

Everyone else uses it, so if you decide not to because of health, everyone else's wifi is killing you anyway, so why not.

 

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/is-wifi-safe-for-your-health

[PlayStation 2]

I meant in terms of health not hackings

Why would wifi or bluetooth kill you? Unless you're on a pacemaker...

[Eoghan mulligan]

caner causing radiowaves

[Donut417]

The fact is there has been testing but WiFi hasnt been around for a long time so its hard to tell. Preliminary tests indicate it does nothing. 

[InVis]

Is wifi safe to use, and or bluetooth. 

No serious studies has proven any negative effects of radio waves at the Tx power that wifi and bluetooth uses  

 

On GSM, 3G and LTE there is a general rule of a safety zone of 2-3 meters from the antennas and 5-10 meters from radiolinks.

[tt2468]

I have had a 500mw access point in my room for more than a year. There is nothing dangerous about it, because it does not have a frequency considered to be 'microwave'

[LAwLz]

Yes it's safe.

 

The radiation is so called "non-ionizing" which means they do not have enough power to break electrons from molecules (which is what damages our DNA and causes cancer). If you want an analogy, think of your router as a flashlight. It doesn't matter if you got 1 flashlight pointed at you, or 100. The light they shine at you won't rip your arm off, because the light does not have enough force to physically move your arm.

The worst that could happen is that your arm got warmer, and that's the only risk with WiFi as well. That's why food heated in a microwave is safe to eat as well. Things you put in the microwave doesn't become radioactive and dangerous to eat right? That's because the waves just gets absorbed by water and it creates heat.

 

But you don't have to be worried that WiFi will cook you like a microwave. I'm not sure about other parts of the world but in EU there is a 100 mW limit of transmission power (and that's BEFORE the losses from for example the antenna, before anything is sent out). So yeah... To get the same cooking effect as a single microwave you would need something like 10,000 WiFi routers all working at the maximum allowed power.

 

If that's not evidence enough, just look at the rates of brain tumors in the last decades. Cellphone usage has gone waaaay up and yet, the number of people getting for example glioma (a type of brain cancer) has stayed the same.

[Andrew_C]

It doesn't matter if you got 1 flashlight pointed at you, or 100.

 

THINK OF THE BATTERIES?!

 

Thanks for the great explanation and example.

[toxicnos]

Yes as long as you use strong encryption. If you are talking about health concerns, that is a controversial topic, some say they cause cancer but I strongly disagree with it. There are much more carcinogenic things that you do every day.

[Wombo]

Yes it's safe.

 

The radiation is so called "non-ionizing" which means they do not have enough power to break electrons from molecules (which is what damages our DNA and causes cancer). If you want an analogy, think of your router as a flashlight. It doesn't matter if you got 1 flashlight pointed at you, or 100. The light they shine at you won't rip your arm off, because the light does not have enough force to physically move your arm.

The worst that could happen is that your arm got warmer, and that's the only risk with WiFi as well. That's why food heated in a microwave is safe to eat as well. Things you put in the microwave doesn't become radioactive and dangerous to eat right? That's because the waves just gets absorbed by water and it creates heat.

 

But you don't have to be worried that WiFi will cook you like a microwave. I'm not sure about other parts of the world but in EU there is a 100 mW limit of transmission power (and that's BEFORE the losses from for example the antenna, before anything is sent out). So yeah... To get the same cooking effect as a single microwave you would need something like 10,000 WiFi routers all working at the maximum allowed power.

 

If that's not evidence enough, just look at the rates of brain tumors in the last decades. Cellphone usage has gone waaaay up and yet, the number of people getting for example glioma (a type of brain cancer) has stayed the same.

I always just tell people visible light contains more energy than radio waves and microwaves. We don't see people running around claiming visible light causes cancer... ohh I sure hope there really aren't any people trying to claim that.