Found an interesting discussion thread
HERE. Here's some food for thought:
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802.11 networks transmit, typically, 38 milliwatts of RF - but only when they are transmitting. Most of the time, they are not transmitting. So the average power output is much less.
Compare this to the average power leakage from a consumer microwave oven, also operating at about 2.45 Ghz: 1/2 watt to 1 watt, depending on when the unit was manufactured. 802.11 networks were, by design, set to produce power output far below (e.g. 1/10th to 1/20th the level) that is emitted by an ordinary microwave oven, which shares the same radio frequencies as 802.11 networks.
The RF power dissipation at 2.4 Ghz is also very rapid, with a fall off in the RF field often proportional to 1 over r to the 4th or 5th power, where r is the radius of the distance outward from the transmission antenna.
PCS phones operate at 1.9 Ghz plus or minus. Traditional cellular operates between 800 and 900 Mhz. Power output level for analog phones was a maximum of 600 milliwatts. For today's digital cellular CDMA phones, the maximum output level is 200 milliwatts. In reality, the typical output is much lower. In order to reduce interference between adjoining tower cells, and to extend the life of the handheld phone's battery, the network strives to keep the transmit power as low as possible. It is quite common for average celphone calls to be conducted at power levels of less than 100 milliwatts.
The only impacts of 802.11 RF appear to be stress induced in those whose brain power may have been limited by other factors outside the realm of this discussion. The impact of the lawsuit itself will be more detrimental to student health than the 802.11 networks, in that the lawsuit will cost the school district funds that might otherwise have gone to student education. Further, if the district decides to remove the network, it will then remove the benefit of having computer network access in its classroom. Thus, the lawsuit itself will de facto cause problems for the students.
I'm willing to bet these same parents are running around calling their lawyers with cell phones clamped to their ears! (And baby monitors in their bedrooms...)
