Lowering your Wi-Fi exposure - few tips

in #emf6 years ago (edited)

It's not gonna be an article about the effects of long lasting EMF exposure.
Just a few tips for the owners of Wi-Fi routers.

  1. If you can, go for a shielded (STP/FTP) cable connection.
  2. Go into your router settings and choose the lowest working power level.
  3. If you have openwrt installed on your router then
    in /etc/config/wireless file after
    config wifi-device 'radio0'
    add this line:
    option txpower '0' to minimize radio power.
    The higher the number the higher output power.
  4. Turn it off when you don't use it - you may switch off the power manually (e.g. when you go to sleep) or with a time-programmable power switch. Another solution is to buy a router with a wifi switch button or if you have openwrt on your router - install Wifitoggle and you'll be able to reprogram other available buttons to switch off the wifi (e.g. the WPS button) or use timed toggles.
  5. Make the beacon interval higher - by default most routers send their ssid with a 100 ms interval (10 times a second). You may change it to 1 second or even more (the higher the interval your connection might loose stability). If you have openwrt then add
    option beacon_int '1000'
    just as in the point 3. for a 1024 ms (1,024 sec) interval.

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