Where do you stand on wireless networks and kids?

[alittleteapot]

We've got one, and now dp wants us to get a wireless harddrive. He knows much more about all this stuff than I do and says it's totally fine. From my position of ignorance I'm a bit paranoid about cell-changing cancer-causing radio waves darting about the place. Does anyone out there have a more educated view that supports either viewpoint?

I've never heard of wireless networks being suspected of causing cancer or anything like that. They are very low-powered compared with things like mobile phone networks.

I would have thought it would be quite slow compared with a wired one, but that's his problem...

thanks. like i said, i come from a position of complete and utter ignorance! i have heard of parents requesting that they are not used in schools, and wonder what that's based on...

If radio waves caused cancer I think it would have been known by know. Its just a shorter wave form than the waves which transmit radio and TV signals. AFAIK, (although DP is the physicist not me) electromagnetic waves need to have a lot shorter wave length to carry enough energy to do any serious damage.

AMumInScotland is right though, it would be slower than a wired harddrive.

ok, feeling stupid now. but why then do some parents persuade schools not to do it?

Because new=frightening if you don't quite understand whats going on I suppose. Not all of us can have physicist DPs to explain it all