How Far Should a WiFi Router Be From Where You Sleep?

As WiFi becomes more essential to modern homes, many people wonder how far a WiFi router should be from their sleeping area for safety and comfort. While research on WiFi radiation and health effects is still evolving, keeping a safe distance between your WiFi router and where you sleep can help reduce exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation and potentially improve sleep quality.

In this article, we’ll cover the recommended distance for placing a WiFi router near your bed, explore safety considerations, and provide tips for limiting exposure to WiFi signals overnight.

Understanding WiFi Radiation

Is mmWave Safe? When Can mmWave Be Dangerous?

The safety of mmWave technology is a topic of ongoing research and discussion. While mmWave technology has been used for various applications, including medical imaging and airport security scanners, the use of mmWave frequencies for widespread wireless communication is relatively new, particularly in the context of 5G networks.

There are a few safety aspects to consider when assessing the safety of mmWave technology:

RFK & Joe Rogan on WiFi & Cell Phone Radiation Can Cause Cancer

Robert F. Kennedy on the danger of Wifi Radiation, including cell phone tumors behind the ear, and that he is representing hundreds of people with such tumors.

How To Measure 5G Cell Tower & Power Line EMF

There are various devices and instruments available that can measure electromagnetic fields (EMF). Here are some common methods and tools used for EMF measurements:

Cell Phones & Cancer Risk?

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There are lots of differing opinions, yet the mobile phone industry is actively trying to confuse and mislead consumers about the health risks of 5G. 

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Buying a Home Next to a DAS Antenna or Cell Tower

DAS Antenna on Utility Pole Next To Homes

If you are buying a home these days you should probably do your due diligence on cell phone towers and DAS antennas that are within a few blocks of your home.   

One of the biggest concerns of a prospective home buyer today is the cell phone reception quality of a home.  Will my new home get a good cell phone signal?  However, most people don't often think of living too close to a DAS antenna on a utility pole (picture above) or a cell phone tower being in their backyard (below).  Here are some articles on cell tower health and safety issues.  Another concern is property values declining near cell phone towers.  

Cell Tower in Back of Home

It is not always transparent if you are new to a neighborhood if there have been historic health and safety issues from a cell phone tower or DAS antenna nearby.  In fact, cell phone companies have dozens of local public relations people on staff to keep the surrounding communities appeased by donating to charities and sponsoring local events.  Public relations is a huge part of trying to squash any negative press or city council issues about putting up new cell phone towers and potential safety issues.  

Deadcellzones.com uses public FCC data sources to map cell phone towers and other unregistered antennas (DAS) in the United States.  The cell phone coverage and cell tower map can be found here.  The map on the left shows dead cell zone complaints and the map on the right show cell phone towers and DAS antennas that have been registered and some unregistered antennas.  The green dots are unregistered antennas and the black dots are cell phone towers.  We do not have all registered & unregistered antennas in this map.  If you see a particular area that you would like us to add unregistered cell phone towers please email us.  

We often get emails from real estate agents looking for data to help their clients better understand what cell phone towers exist in the neighborhood near the home.  This is often true of out of state buyers looking at homes who are unfamiliar with the area.   Homebuyers from out of the area often want to know how the cell phone reception is of a particular home or apartment and don't want to be surprised if a cell phone tower or antenna is hanging on a pole near the house. 

Deadcellzones.com is also actively trying to get cell phone reception feedback used by real estate companies like Zillow, RedFin, HomeSnap & Realtor.com.  We think cell reception and cell tower data should be an attribute used by real estate companies similar to how Walkscore provides information about things nearby a home like schools, restaurants, and parks.  

Most real estate companies have been very reluctant to share this data with prospective home buyers for obvious reasons.  Why would any real estate agent want to give a reason NOT to buy a home?  Hopefully, this culture of dishonesty will change in the near future and this data can provide some transparency.  

Some areas in particular where we have a lot of readers are in California.  So if you are looking to find places to live here is one resource that might help when trying to find tiburon apartments. 

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Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

The expert panel that evaluates cancer risks today said that cell phones might possibly cause brain cancer.  Full Story from WebMD

The announcement comes from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Like the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society relies on IARC for evaluation of cancer risks.

"After reviewing all the evidence available, the IARC working group classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans," panel chairman Jonathan Samet, MD, chair of preventive medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine, said at a news teleconference. "We reached this conclusion based on a review of human evidence showing an increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, in association with wireless phone use."

In finding cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic," the IARC means that heavy cell phone use might -- or might not -- cause a specific form of brain cancer called a glioma. The finding means that research is urgently needed to find out whether cell phones actually cause cancer, and how they might do it.

The IARC estimates that some 5 billion people worldwide have mobile phones. Lifetime exposure to the magnetic fields created by the phones -- particularly when they are held tightly against the head -- rapidly is increasing.

Children are at particular risk, not only because their skulls are thinner but also because their lifetime exposure to cell phones likely will be greater than the exposure of current adults.

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How to Measure Cell Phone Radiation Levels

Studies are inconclusive about the effect of radiation from cell phones. Tawkon shows you when you're OK to talk on and how to minimize your exposure to mobile phone radiation just when you need to. Tawkon is the only application that recognizes when radiation exposure has increased, alerts you when radiation levels cross a predefined threshold, and provides simple, non-intrusive suggestions to reduce exposure to radiation. Suggestions are based on your real time environment and usage factors.

Tawkon  achieves this with our RRI™ (Real-time Radiation Indication) patent-pending technology. RRI collects and analyzes your phone's dynamic SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) levels, network coverage, location, environmental conditions and phone usage at any given moment. RRI leverages unique smart phones capabilities such as GPS, accelerometer, proximity sensors and more to help minimize radiation exposure during mobile phone usage.  Request a download here.

Mobile phones allow communication from any location via a network of base stations (cellular antennas). Information is transmitted from the mobile phone to the base station and vice versa via high-frequency electromagnetic fields.  Radiation intensity is greatest close to its source (the mobile phone's antenna) and decreases sharply with distance from the phone.  The intensity of cellular (non-ionizing) radiation exposure during a call depends on various factors:

A mobile phone emits less radiation when connection quality is good than when it is poor.

• Connection quality is, for example, better outdoors than in a building or areas with connectivity interferences (basement, elevator, car, etc)
• Connectivity improves with proximity to a cellular base station
• Connectivity can be reduced by phone usage such as antenna orientation (if the phone is held vertically or horizontally), travel speed, etc

The proportion of radiation absorbed by the human body when making a call varies according to:

• The model of mobile phone, conveyed by the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). Maximum SAR levels are set by governmental regulating agencies in many countries (e.g. the FCC in the US)
• The antenna’s proximity from the body

App screen shot

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Story Line of "Pulse" The Horror Movie

In "Pulse," all the little marvels of the modern world — PCs, PDAs, wireless Internet — become portals for soul-stealing phantoms who prey on the living and especially young college students. Eventually, the only safe places are the dead zones where cell-phone signals can't reach. This may be the first movie in which the frantic heroes are actually hoping for a dropped call.