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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by trebor on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:53AM (#8551380)
I'll third the desire. We've been turning the WiFi off at night, and virtually every AP we've had has had issues. So I'd much rather use ethernet for something as critical as security, due to past WiFi issues.
Re:Point – A smart house sitter by tlrobinson on Monday November 03, 2014 @11:33AM (#8551662)
Out of curiosity, why do you turn off WiFi at night?
Re:Point – A smart house sitter by trebor on Monday November 03, 2014 @11:47AM (#8551775)
I'm getting suspicious of WiFi's actual safety, potential EMF sensitivity and all that. The same wavelength at higher powers cooks food and has never actually been proven safe at lower levels. Even though it's non-ionizing radiation ... so are the various nuclear radiation particles/waves. So we're running a test to see if turning the WiFi off affects our sleep.
Re:Point – A smart house sitter by blacksmith_tb on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:31PM (#8552528)
I would worry more about your neighbors using your network, the transmitter in your cellphone is much more powerful than in your AP, and I will guess that you sleep much nearer to it as well... In either case, the strength falls off with the square of the distance.