Eichhörnchen,
I was sorry yesterday that I piled on with the humor and jokes and the lead hat! You have an issue to be fixed and it sucks when you find out you did solve a problem that you thought you had (the wifi being on the entire time). I hate that kind of thing.
I saw that lead cap video years ago when I was checking out personal protection gear and talking about safety hats reminded me of how funny the self defense cap was and for me the best part the guy in the videos seemingly genuine enthusiasm for how it works and actually using it! haha.
What you're thinking is reasonable and I usually go with trusting your instincts.
Seems like they've done lots of studies that indicate there isn't a great risk. But I don't think you can really say the definitive answer on something until there is concrete proof. When people get to be 80 years old and have been exposed to something their entire life and there's no evidence of harm then it's proven to me and you can close the book on it.
I did a quick look at a Time article on the subject. Scientist looking at both sides agreed wifi is most likely not harmful. Interesting that when you hold a cell phone next to your brain and make a phone call the signal is
100 times stronger then wifi the entire time of the call. Yikes! (and I just noticed this past Sunday during family visit that my 14 year old niece had her face buried in her new iphone pretty much the entire 5 hours I was there.)
Their conclusion:
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Moskowitz doesn’t disagree with Moulder. But he says the amount of radio wave radiation people—and especially children—are exposed to today is different, and this raises new concerns. When it comes to our long-term, cumulative exposures to all our wireless networks and gadgets, “we’re basically flying blind,” he says.
Of course, trying to avoid radio wave exposure is more or less impossible if you live in modern society. Moskowitz advises keeping wireless devices away from your body and turning off wireless networks when they’re not in use. While any health risks are still theoretical, “I think trying to minimize exposure is the best advice at this point,” Moskowitz adds.
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https://time.com/4508432/what-is-wifi-radiation-cancer/)
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I think if a person has a reasonable gut reaction to something and there is a simple solution it's probably better to trust yourself and do it. I've learned ignoring little things that you feel can build up inside you and cause needless anxiety. Even if it just winds up being the one last thing that tips you into being distracted or having a bad dream or the time you waste debating yourself and thinking about it. Who needs it? Fix it once and move on.
I'm going to try and connect directly without wifi also. My router is on other side of the room 20 feet away but I don't really need wifi right now. I spend most of my wifi time at home on a desktop computer and a laptop on desk next to it. So I'm shooting wifi the last 20 feet across the room verses just running a cable, which now seems kind of silly. Seems worth the effort just to see that it's probable faster.
Did you get your computer running and the wifi turned off and everything working ok?
-Tim