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jolo2
May 13, 2018Star
Orbi: I need to switch off wireless radios at night
I have an Orbi system, RBR50/RBK50. I am increasingly aware of research that makes a good case for health risks for children from wifi systems, even if they operate within legal limits (e.g. https:/...
tsig
May 14, 2018Luminary
what makes it "safe" at during the day, but not at night?
JoeCymru
May 14, 2018Virtuoso
I am sorry, and with all due respect, with all the click bait articles and other wifi danger scenarios that have been floating about, some reason and science must be introduced into the debate before we all toss our phones and routers into the garbage and go back to paper and landlines.The really bad radiation is ionizing. Radio and microwave radiation is not. Those wavelengths are longer than even visible light. Microwaves in your oven are 700 to 1200 watts. Even without shielding you still would not feel it unless you crawled in, and the danger is the water molecules heating up, not ionizing radiation destroying tissue or DNA. Your router puts out perhaps 1 watt in a dispersed cloud. Also, the quantity or intensity of linear-wave radiation is directly inverse to the distance the observing/affected body is from the source of the radiation, so the power drops off quickly with distance.
Your router puts out non-ionizing, low frequency radiation (lower than infrared or visible light) in extremely low absorbtion power. To be afraid of this, you also need to be terrified of visible light. The next higher frequency of light above visible is ultra violet, which is the very beginning of where there could be long term cumulative damage due to some minor ionization in light skinned people. There are magnitudes of danger more in going outside without slathering yourself with sunscreen if you are light skinned, than owning an Orbi and leaving it on.