Do You Use Wi-Fi?

[Eichhörnchen]

When we got our internet connection 7 years ago we decided we didn't want to be irradiated by Wi-Fi so would connect to our BT (British Telecom) Home Hub 4 using ethernet cables and have the peripherals wired too

I assumed (foolishly) that when using ethernet the wi-fi would be inactive and we'd be safe. I now find that it was turned on by default when the hub (router) was first installed, and you have to go into the online hub settings if you want to turn it off

Other writers have said that you can it off and use ethernet, but when you read the guidance from BT they urge caution and say that switching off wi-fi will result in an orange light on your hub instead of blue. Which means (according to their own Home Hub guidance) we'll have NO INTERNET connection: steady orange light = no connection!

I don't know what to do now; how are these other people able to operate their computers with an ethernet cable and the router's wi-fi turned off? It's bad enough knowing that our neighbours' wi-fi is likely to be frying us alive anyway, but I've been sitting next to this thing all this time not realising that it was doing the same

[Catfish]

With online hub settings you meant the router/DSL router, and it should be perfectly possible to use internet via LAN cable when turning off WiFi/WLAN.
After all the router works like a switch, with (usually) at least four LAN sockets providing access to the internet.

You would have to consult the manual of that special router, but if there is no hint or no manual, just switch WiFi off, i bet your PCs or whatever connected via cable will still have internet access.

Not your mobile phone/tablet etc. of course, without WLAN/WiFi you will have to use the (expensive) online cell access with those devices.

[Skybird]

The www connects to the router via cable anyway. World-cable - wall mount - cable - router.



The router connects to devices via cable or Wi-Fi. For exmaple my PC is on cable, my secondary Linux laptop is connected via Wi-Fi, because it is placed away. My smartphone and tablet when at home also connect via Wi-Fi, but could be connected via cable as well.



Wi-Fi switch switches on and off only the cable-free connection from router to device, not from web to router.



I can switch on and off WLAN on the router via a simple button. That does nothing to the conneciton with the www. I cna have even malfunctioning itnernet and route rgetting no signal form the www - while the WIFI still is active.

[mapuc]

No Cable from computer to this device and from there it's fiber.

Edit
My smart tv and my older laptop use WiFi
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[Jimbuna]

I can't understand what it is you have against WiFi Glynn because it comes at no extra cost and you can password protect it to stop any nearby leechers.

I use it all over the house for quite a few applications.

[Buddahaid]

Well I use it and am swimming in it at work. I don't see how you can avoid it anymore.

[Aktungbby]

Even I, who am completely computer hardware illiterate, carry a rechargeable pocketsized jetpack for using my Samsung tablet in the car (nav-maps on patrol)when away from the manor's WIFI ie: my big easy chair in front of the tv; all ably managed by my Xfinity cable service and extremely computer literate spouse.

[3catcircus]

The WiFi power level from your router is vastly lower than what you are already awash in from any television or radio broadcasts, mobiles, etc.

Unless you put your head right up against the router, you'll be fine.

[Aktungbby]

Not at US consulate in Havana it's not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana...22%20or%20UHIs.

A study of affected diplomats in Cuba published in the medical journal JAMA in 2019 found evidence that the diplomats experienced some form of brain injury, but did not determine the cause or specific character of the trauma. While there is no expert consensus on the syndrome's cause, a co-author of the JAMA study considered microwave weapons "a main suspect". A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine expert committee concluded in December 2020 that microwave energy (specifically, directed pulsed RF energy) "appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered" but that "each possible cause remains speculative." In 2021, investigators were considering new evidence, including blood markers from patients, which had recently been collected and analyzed more systematically.

[Rockstar]

It makes perfect sense to look at foreign powers possibly using U.S. embassy officials as Guinea pigs. But we should also consider what new high tech, high powered transmitters are in these buildings which might be causing personnel health issues. Which I’m sure our government has just like they did with agent orange.

[Otto Harkaman]

You could buy a hat


https://www.amazon.com/Shielded-Prot.../dp/B005I4D5GO

[Buddahaid]

I didn't think he kept his brains in there...

[tmccarthy]

There appears to be some minimum safe distance?

[Jimbuna]

That router looks identical to mine.

[Catfish]

The right side of the plant looks like all of mine.