I work for a specilaist Wi-Fi company here in the UK, responsible for the infrastructure of wi-fi at 90% of all the major UK music festivals, O2, oxygen, glastonbury etc and have countless installations across schools, hospitality etc It's typical for the nation that has the 'lowest' power output laws on wi-fi networks in the world to also be the biggest moaners and worry warts. Both Japan and the US output MUCH more power than we ever do. They are even allowed 'amplifiers' in these countries, something again isn't legal here in the UK. 100mw it's the maxium output power allowed to transmit over a 2.4Ghz wave, HOWEVER this DOES NOT MEAN that people don't break the law. You can buy a 12dbi gain antenna, as soon as you wack it onto your router, your now emitting nearer to 2 WATTS of power rather than 100mw with the deafult antenna. Panorma went around select schools that were breaking the law in terms of output power, Why? Because the COMPANY they hired to carry out the installation simply WASN'T AWARE!! So they are 'safe' under the regulations applied, which is not to exceed the 100mw/20dbm output powers.
If your a school, or any other I urge you to speak to a 'wifi' specialist. Just beacuse they are a multi-billion pound networking company doesn't mean they are 'experts' in RF? DO not believe for one second just because a company is a 'network specialist' means they are also an 'RF specialist'.
Also, did you know you could sit your head next to a router for 12 months and you'd take in the same amount of power as a 20minute call on a cell phone?
Yeah..So maybe the question should be "are cell phones dangerous" before we even consider wi-fi!!!
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I work for a specilaist Wi-Fi company here in the UK, responsible for the infrastructure of wi-fi at 90% of all the major UK music festivals, O2, oxygen, glastonbury etc and have countless installations across schools, hospitality etc It's typical for the nation that has the 'lowest' power output laws on wi-fi networks in the world to also be the biggest moaners and worry warts. Both Japan and the US output MUCH more power than we ever do. They are even allowed 'amplifiers' in these countries, something again isn't legal here in the UK. 100mw it's the maxium output power allowed to transmit over a 2.4Ghz wave, HOWEVER this DOES NOT MEAN that people don't break the law. You can buy a 12dbi gain antenna, as soon as you wack it onto your router, your now emitting nearer to 2 WATTS of power rather than 100mw with the deafult antenna. Panorma went around select schools that were breaking the law in terms of output power, Why? Because the COMPANY they hired to carry out the installation simply WASN'T AWARE!! So they are 'safe' under the regulations applied, which is not to exceed the 100mw/20dbm output powers.
If your a school, or any other I urge you to speak to a 'wifi' specialist. Just beacuse they are a multi-billion pound networking company doesn't mean they are 'experts' in RF? DO not believe for one second just because a company is a 'network specialist' means they are also an 'RF specialist'.
Also, did you know you could sit your head next to a router for 12 months and you'd take in the same amount of power as a 20minute call on a cell phone?
Yeah..So maybe the question should be "are cell phones dangerous" before we even consider wi-fi!!!