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It's easily disproved by the fact that they think they are escaping it by simply moving away from WiFi. The 2.4GHz band is swamped in most consumer settings by
by steckerbrett 11y ago
It's easily disproved by the fact that they think they are escaping it by simply moving away from WiFi. The 2.4GHz band is swamped in most consumer settings by remote controls, doorbells, video systems, remote control cars.
Beyond that (imagining you somehow eliminated all of those) the biggest source of radio frequency garbage is going to be from space rather than a consumer grade <1W transmitter, the atmosphere is pretty opaque to 2.4GHz. Somewhat coincidentally the cosmic noise we can hear from earth is mostly in the microwave range.
Maybe if people's skulls started vibrating in time with the woodpecker [0] or something I'd believe it.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3
- jancona 11y agoNo, not true. The strength of electromagnetic fields is governed by an inverse-square law. The reason the town bans WiFi is that even a low-power router can overpower the signals from space, even though a 100 meter diameter dish is focused on the space signals. The same phenomena means that people who complain about radiation from cell towers while not avoiding cell phones are being irrational--the signal from a phone in the same room (or in your pocket) is far stronger that from a tower hundreds or thousands of meters away.