Wireless Woo-woo Worries

[Psi Baba]

Parents sue school over wireless network (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/13/sprj.ws.wifi.lawsuit.reut/index.html)
A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children.

According to the complaint, filed in Illinois state court, parents of five children assert that a growing body of evidence outlines "serious health risks that exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency radiation poses to human beings, particularly children."
Um, anyone know of any of this "growing body of evidence?"

[MRC_Hans]

I suppose the jury is still out on the powerful transmitters in cell-phone base stations, but wireless network devices have outputs in quarter milliwatt levels. The signals from them are hardly ripples in the sea of radio signals that engulf you round the clock :rolleyes:.

Hans

[Walter Wayne]

Originally posted by MRC_Hans
I suppose the jury is still out on the powerful transmitters in cell-phone base stations, but wireless network devices have outputs in quarter milliwatt levels. The signals from them are hardly ripples in the sea of radio signals that engulf you round the clock :rolleyes:.

Hans Quarter milliwatts?. The 802.11 standards both allow 20 dBm at the attenna. That would be 100 mW.

I still don't think that the there are any health concerns based on that, unless the children are going to be sitting on the transmitters.

Walt