Jason Dunn
05-30-2007, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/13048/is_wi-fi_bad_for_your_health' target='_blank'>http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/13048/is_wi-fi_bad_for_your_health</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A BBC television show has found elevated levels of radiation in a school using Wi-Fi, prompting a debate about the safety of wi-fi. But is it all just hype? We all know the benefits of Wi-Fi broadband – the ability to check your e-mail in a hotspot or use your laptop anywhere at home, for instance – but a British television program has contended that Wi-Fi could be dangerous to your health. But is it all a storm in a teacup? The BBC Panorama show tested radiation levels in English one school equipped with Wi-Fi and found them to be three times that of radiation emitted by cell phone masts. That’s prompted a debate about the long-term safety of Wi-Fi, although it’s still 600 times lower that the radiation safety levels issued by the British government."</i><br /><br />There's always some new way we're going to get killed (slowly or quickly) it seems, and today it's the slow burn of WiFi signals. I <i>have</i> wondered about this rash since I swapped in a new router... :lol: Like most stories of this type, the reality is always different than the headline. The article goes on to say that there's the same amount of radio waves coming from a WiFi hot-spot over the course of a year as there is coming from a cell phone over the course of a 20 minute phone call. I'm fine with that statistic - I live in a WiFi hotspot year-round (most of us do I'd imagine), but I'm not on my mobile phone every day. Those things will kill you! ;-)