Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)

Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by vvanders on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:39AM (#19625113)

Gah, don't do that if you value your RF spectrum. Those types of devices should be banned as they turn the untwisted electrical lines in your house into a giant set it antennas.

If you have any ham radio neighbors ethernet over power is basically a jammer.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by rujuladanh on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:05AM (#19625402)

Do they increase the actual power emitted or just create interference? i.e. should one be concerned health-wise if many of those are used? (assuming one believes in RF in these frequencies being harmful).

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by kakarot on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:05PM (#19629880)

It's kind of a pointless question. If you believe RF can hurt you, it has no bearing on the fact that it can't and doesn't.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by justatdotin on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:44PM (#19630422)

well, high enough levels of RF (ie, well above routine public exposure) can burn.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by kakarot on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:43AM (#19632881)

Sure, and if you stare into a focused microwave emitter you'll cook your brains.

That's like saying light is harmful because looking directly at the sun or a high-powered laser will blind you.

Focused beams are outside the scope of this question because we're dealing with cell transmitters.

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