Wifi? Is it illegally illegal to post for a wifi problem on here????

mapj1:

Putting it as pithily as the auto-censor on the bulletin boards permit, the scares about masts for 5g base stations are a load of claptrap.


They are indeed small radio transmitters in 5 devices , much as there are in any mobile phone, but unless you intend to climb the mast and eat your packed lunch up there, by far the largest exposure comes from the device you or the chap next to you is holding - simply because the top of the mast is much further away, by a factor of hundreds, and the initial transmit power is comparable at both ends and can be imagined as spreading out spherically over an ever increasing area - and becoming consequently more and more thinly spread - indeed this is why you need so many base stations - the signal at these higher frequencies falls off so fast with distance as to be  below the limit of detection after some hundreds of metres. .

Now it is quite true that for very good health reasons it is not sensible to spend the day with a 'phone' clapped to your head, or staring at your fondle-slab or whatever, but over-heating from radio waves is way down the list of possible side effects, longg after eye strain, neck ache, and possible obesity from lack of exercise and fresh air.

At very high power levels other effects kick, in but that is not true of domestic devices that radiate a small fraction of a watt, those of us with a professional involvement do start to take care some where between 10 and 100 watts;

wallywombat:

One other thing about 5G - due to the higher frequency signal needing the be nearer to line-of-sight, it requires more masts - kind of "one on every lamppost". This has the effect that both the mast and the mobile phone will be transmitting at much lower power - e.g if the mast is half the distance, transmissions will use a quarter of the power. So much safer if you're unduly worried about the power.