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should I just give it up and move to somewhere back in time?
here's an old thread with some WebmasterWorld notables weighing in on this - is there anything new worth discussing that folks know about?
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thanks !
1) Get as far away from any wireless transmissions over which you have no control.
2) Have a friend test whether you are really sensitive by switching the wi-fi adapter on and off on your laptop and any any other wireless devices you have such as telephones.
The chances are your headaches are unrelated to wi-fi. I started getting headaches about fifteen years ago. If it had happened a couple of years ago I might easily have jumped to the conclusion that wi-fi was to blame, but I'd have been wrong.
Kaled.
Originally I began experiencing this odd sensation when doing some simple experiments with friends at MIT.
I always thought I was imagining things and expected that others would figure this out.
Has anyone else conducted any similar experiments?
Do it long enough and see if it correlates ...
I would be interested in the long-term consequences.
for me, other than living in a Faraday cage, I feel like I'd need to have a tin-foil suit and or a tin-foil house!
I think the effects of EM on certain people has been documented.
Kaled.
does anyone have any suggestions?
Turn off the wi-fi off when you are not using it!
My Netgear DGN2000 router has a button on the side which turns the RF on and off. Our desktops are wired, so I only turn it on when using a laptop.
You could also try a directional antenna.
I think some routers and network cards allow you to turn the RF output level down, reducing this to the practical minimum level might help.
I would have thought mobile phones far more likely to produce the effect than wi-fi: similar part of the spectrum, but physically closer to you so you are likely to absorb much much more of it (inverse square law), so try stopping using a mobile phone first.
Some people may be hyper-sensitive to EM radiation, but the reality is that most people who believe they are have jumped to the wrong conclusion. If the condition was as common as the belief, scientists would have reported it many times by now.
Some years ago there was a belief amongst some people that overhead power cables were a problem, but that's been forgotten in favour of more fashionable things to blame like cell-phone and tetra masts. The funny thing is that no-one has ever worried about radio and TV broadcasts and people living near TV transmitters are exposed to a lot of EM radiation at a frequencies not much lower than than those used by cell-phone and wireless devices. (Indeed, when analogue TV is switched off, much of the spectrum will be sold off for use by these devices).
Kaled.
Ghosts have been documented many times, but that doesn't mean that creaky attic upstairs suffers from anything more than wind.
Perhaps that is as it should be. Science is a slow process. We should never accept any claim as fact. The flip side is that we should never dismiss a claim either, no matter how outlandish. Forget about the "Ghostbusters" guys with all the pseudo-scientific equipment hunting down ghosts. I think they play an important role in generating public interest. They're the amateurs with limited funding, who try to peel back the layers to get to some truth that may or may not be there. But they will probably not be the ones writing a paper on it.
For anyone to objectively look back at the past several millennia of human progress and science, and not think that we need to have an open mind, is rather ignorant (this is not a personal attack). You're not a fool for leaving the door open, but closing it would be unwise.
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It is being called a myth though there are many who claim to suffer from it.
However people who have claimed to suffer from it are incapable of determining whether there is an active wireless signal in their vicinity or not. In multiple blinded studies they did no better than random chance when asked to identify whether equipment that broadcasts on Wi-Fi or cellular frequencies is active.
I think the effects of EM on certain people has been documented.
As mentioned above it has been documented as false.
[edited by: lawman at 1:23 am (utc) on Aug. 18, 2009]
Apparently the gimmick (untested) was that you rubber band 2 cell phones together with a raw egg between the 2 phones. You then have one phone call the other.
In theory, the egg would cook in about an hour.
Where's Adam and Jamie when you need them?
At one point there was a Mythbusters worthy internet story floating around about the cell phones that hard boiled an egg.
Apparently the gimmick (untested) was that you rubber band 2 cell phones together with a raw egg between the 2 phones. You then have one phone call the other.In theory, the egg would cook in about an hour.
Where's Adam and Jamie when you need them?
My new phone has wi-fi. I get a nice buzz if a call comes in while I am using the blue-tooth headset to listen to streaming music over the wi-fi. You could probably cut the cooking time by 20% with this phone.
I swear these new eye-phones give me a tingle so I guess I'm just psychosomatic!
