Are Wi-Fi waves dangerous at night?

Question

Hello everyone!
I'm wondering whether or not to turn off my DLINK wifi router every night: are the waves it transmits harmful to health? My bed is about 2 meters from the router, and I don't have any particular risks related to the waves. What do you personally do if you sleep in the room where the router is located?
Thanks!

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sasuke · Accepted Answer

You can unplug your router; this may reduce exposure to waves at night, because although it has not been proven that it is dangerous, waves can cause insomnia in some people.

Claude Lachance · Answer

Are the waves it transmits dangerous to health?  Hello  We don’t have clear answers. The industry and several engineers claim it’s risk-free while others say the opposite: none of their arguments have convinced me at all. Only time will tell, obviously. In the meantime, I apply the precautionary principle: no Wi-Fi and no cell phone, even though I know that the waves coming from relays and other devices in my surroundings continue to affect me; I can’t exactly live in a Faraday cage.  Ciao!    -- Reason is intelligence in action; imagination is intelligence in erection. [Victor Hugo]

fear · Answer

Thank you, friends!!

Erwan031284 · Answer

"All my PCs are wired, and there's no risk from waves"

You're forgetting mobile phones, radars, GSM antennas...

"It's certainly more expensive, but what price for health?"

No, it's less expensive, on the contrary...

"You first need to know that electromagnetic waves... are photons. So, light."

Electromagnetic waves = light?!? That's too much of a shortcut to be true... Visible light and electromagnetic waves share the same medium, but that doesn't make them equal phenomena! I mean, visible light is an electromagnetic wave within a certain frequency range (between infrared and ultraviolet).
For the record, the scientific community has a hard time determining whether light is a wave (force movement by domino effect, in short) or a particle (movement of matter/force in a medium).

"A so-called study was published in a well-known magazine for women proving that 'waves' (a term never defined in the article, by the way...) were very harmful. Let me tell you, at the department, it was the joke of the year."

I can imagine! :D

"I think if I disconnect from the internet, the Wi-Fi won't work anymore"

Your PC's Wi-Fi, no, but the router's will! It has to respond to a connection request, so the router continuously emits the Wi-Fi carrier (the neutral signal to which information is added)! At the same time, it also emits the network-specific information (network name).

"No one really knows the effects of this or that technology"

Short-term effects, yes. But long-term effects, over several generations, no. (A bit like the radioactive components in the time of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the now infamous asbestos)

"The best thing would be to live in a trailer in a deserted countryside, without a network, far away from everything, and even then I think there are certain risks"

Loneliness, lack of hygiene... among other things.

"So what to say?"

Mickey3D wrote this: "your grandchildren will only have one eye
Right in the middle of their forehead, they will ask you
Why do you have two, you'll look like a fool"

Revealing, isn't it?

--
Because the manuals don't say everything... But they don't say nothing either, huh!

Are Wi-Fi waves dangerous at night?

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