Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Where is your child sitting in class? Is it close to the wifi?

RF radiation in Schools
The Wi-Fi in schools radiates far more RF radiation than your home Wi-Fi.  A school Wi-Fi system has to be able to support dozens of connections simultaneously, whereas your home Wi-Fi supports only a few.
Recommendations from the Collaborative for High Performing Schools recommend wireless over Wi-Fi, and if Wi-Fi is used, it should be turned off when not in use and all access points be labeled and that everyone should sit at least 16 ft away from Wi-Fi Access points.  


Do you know how far your child is sitting from the Wi-Fi access point in his classrooms?  Currently children and teachers are only a few feet from an access point, because FCC limits say 8 inches is all that's needed for Wi-Fi routers 

(This FCC limit is a thermal limit - closer than this distance your body's tissues would experience heating from the microwave radiation.  Because FCC acknowledges heating effects as the only harmful effect from microwave RF radiation, its limits are based on thermal thresholds. )

As long as you are at a distance where there is not enough microwave radiation from a device or cell tower to cook you, it is FCC compliant - this is FCC's standard of "safety"


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