> >What do you all think about the wireless LAN effect on young kids?  I
tried
> >resisting it out of the fear, but thinking to try it because of the
wiring
> >hassle.

Most WIFI cards (802.11b) produce truly minimal energy levels compared with
other energy sources. As long as you have cards rated in the 10 to 50
milliwatt range it would seem extremely unlikely that any damage would be
caused. While SOME cards can run at 500 mW to 1 watt this is rare and
utterly unnecessary in all normal WiFi systems (and illegal in many
administrations).

I am all for "prudent avoidance" and try not to expose myself or others to
questionable energy levels but I would be happy with this aspect of WiFi.

Not sleeping with your head too near a mains powered alarm clock and doing a
field sweep of all rooms in your house to see if there are any EM hot spots
near areas where people spend large amounts of time is liable to be more
worth while. Whether ANY of this matters at all is still moot - but its
safety is still certainly not a certainty*. Only time will tell.


                Russell McMahon


* There are MANY studies which prove and MANY which disprove the safety of
domestic EM fields. Some interesting and plausible and unintuitive damage
mechanisms have been suggested. I consider that the common sense approach is
to at least minimise EM field exposure where this can be done at trivial or
no cost or inconvenience. Sticking a powered on mains transformer (eg in an
alarm clock) next to your head each time you sleep is one way of becoming a
statistical test case. Doing a sweep of your home with an EM field meter is
easy and may suggest some easy precautions you may wish to take in other
areas).

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