If I disable the WIFI card from the device manager, is it truly off?

[cheen]

If I disable the WIFI card from the device manager, is it truly off?

My concern is the Electromagnetic energy that these cards put off...

I am talking here about desktop computers with cards, but I would also like
to know if this applies to LAPTOP.

There is increasing concern about the negative effects of the EM waves...

so if I disable it from the device manager is the antenna truly off 100%?


THANKS

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Are you forgetting to wear your tinfoil hat again ? Emitting RF requires a
signal. Without TCP/IP packets to send, there will be no signal.

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[Bob Willard]

If I disable the WIFI card from the device manager, is it truly off?

My concern is the Electromagnetic energy that these cards put off...

I am talking here about desktop computers with cards, but I would also like
to know if this applies to LAPTOP.

There is increasing concern about the negative effects of the EM waves...

so if I disable it from the device manager is the antenna truly off 100%?


THANKS

Note that the risk from a WiFi NIC is tiny compared with the risk from using
a cellphone: not only is the transmit power of a cellphone higher than WiFi,
but the antenna is an inch or so from your brain, as compared with the foot
or two distance between a PC's WiFi NIC and your brain. All in all, using
a cellphone is (very very roughly) 1,000 times more dangerous than using WiFi.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

If I disable the WIFI card from the device manager, is it truly off?

My concern is the Electromagnetic energy that these cards put off...

I would suggest that your concerns are over-stated.

I am talking here about desktop computers with cards, but I would also
like to know if this applies to LAPTOP.

They are identical except for packaging.

There is increasing concern about the negative effects of the EM waves...

so if I disable it from the device manager is the antenna truly off 100%?


THANKS

Yes, but that does nothing to shield you from EM emissions from the many
other sources within any PC or laptop that happens to be near you, and the
cellphones you and others may have. If you're in or walk by a coffee shop
where people are using wireless, your exposure is the same.

If you want to eliminate all these sources, you're going to have to move to
a very rural location and not use any electronic products.

HTH
-pk

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Yep, tinfoil hat (grounded) What they call a 'Faraday Cage'
http://www.fabreeka.com/products/platforms.htm

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[cheen]

You are incorrect, this is not how wireless works, there is a carrier wave
much like radio

it is radio!

 

[cheen]

You are incorrect, the new studies show that using a laptop with wifi is
much like using a cellphone

it might be a little further away but you are exposed for a longer duration

Please learn the facts

 

[Bob Willard]

You are incorrect, the new studies show that using a laptop with wifi is
much like using a cellphone

it might be a little further away but you are exposed for a longer duration

Please learn the facts

Do you have references to these facts? Preferably to studies reported in
peer-reviewed journals?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

If I disable the WIFI card from the device manager, is it truly off?

My concern is the Electromagnetic energy that these cards put off...

I am talking here about desktop computers with cards, but I would
also like to know if this applies to LAPTOP.

There is increasing concern about the negative effects of the EM
waves...
so if I disable it from the device manager is the antenna truly off
100%?

Please quote sources for these "concerns about the negative effects of the
EM waves [produced by a laptop with wifi]".
Web links, magazine articles, etc.

I mean - yes - someone could do their own research:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/12/uk-doctor-puts-the-smackdown-on-wifi-fearmongers/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Wireless-Internet-Technology-Bad-For-Your-Health?&id=614109
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/james_randerson/2007/05/why_fear_wifi.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061212/080748.shtml
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061127/082049.shtml?op=sharethis
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/wifi.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676129.stm
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/wifi-is-is-not-dangerous-bbc-edition/
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/05/21/wi-fi-radiation-is-it-dangerous-to-your-child/

But if you seem to feel you have definitive scientific proof (nothing above
proves much of anything either way... So...) - please link us to it.

I mean you could get one of these:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/desk-eos-rids-your-workspace-of-evil-electromagnetic-waves/

Or one could just protect themselves from the proven and real 'danger' of
laptops...
http://www.it-director.com/business/innovation/news_release.php?rel=4579
Heat...