Internet booster?

rwbradley wrote:

holstein13 wrote:

rwbradley wrote:
3) in the case of the sleek, the hotspot or phone must sit in the cradle the whole time, and in the case of a phone, you must not put the phone/cradle up to your ear unless you want to melt your brain

Oh my goodness, that's an incredible claim and sounds awful. Please explain to us how this mechanism works? Is there an actual burning sensation to warn us that we are melting our brains or is it more insidious, like a 1,000 watt microwave oven, that will melt our brains from the inside? Wow, I would think the authorities should be alerted to this serious health concern. How could the product liability lawyers even allow this to happen? Amazing. I'm glad you've alerted us to this safety issue.

Let me clarify for those that did not detect the bit of humor in that statement. The base unit is an amplifier, for this reason having the base unit in close proximity to the skull would increase the risk for brain tumors, as high power RF is a known source of brain cancer. With RF signals the risk from them drops logarithmically as you get away from the base unit ie having it 1" from your brain may theoretically lower the risk 10x, and having it 2" may lower the risk 100x etc which is why the unit is not a risk when sitting on the dashboard of our car. If you read the instructions that come with the unit, it does say not to put the phone in the amplifier cradle up to your head it is just not very clearly spelled out (IMHO).

"Increase the risk for brain tumors"? You mean there is a risk of developing brain tumors if I put this thing up to my head? That's very concerning. I don't see any humor in that statement at all. Please point me to your research on this. The cell phone companies have been telling us for years that there is no risk of developing brain tumors. I would really like to see where you are coming up with support for these very alarming claims.

When you say that "high power RF is a known source of brain cancer" are you referring to the one or two watts of power in the Wilson Sleek? I didn't realize that high power RF meant a few watts of power. I always thought it referred to thousands of watts or at least hundreds of watts.

Also, when you refer to high power RF being dangerous, what part of the electromagnetic spectrum, specifically, are you referring to? Is that statement based upon the UHF part of the spectrum where cell phones frequencies emanate or the high parts of the spectrum such as x-rays and gamma rays. Could it be that not all RF is equally dangerous? Perhaps, ionizing radiation such as x-rays and radioactive output might be more dangerous than non-ionizing radiation such as a light bulb, AM radio or cell phone.