EMF Safety: Take The Great Wired Experiment (step-by-step guide on hardwiring your devices)

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EMF Safety: Choose the Great Wired Experiment

(With a step-by-step guide on hardwiring your devices)

Updated 30 Aug 2020

Wired vs. wireless—what's the difference?

Why choose a wired connection?

Wireless tech and your health

Setting up a wired connection

What changes can you expect?

Your indoor space is your biological sanctuary

Choose the great wired experiment

While we’re indoors in greater numbers and for longer periods than ever before due to lockdowns, making the best of the space you have is more important than ever. Being indoors relying on digital means to conduct pretty much every affair of the world is a drain on your health—not the best deal during a time when you want more, not less, resilient immunity.

If you have been struggling, it is worth understanding how the combo of being mostly indoors and on devices has massive impact on your wellbeing. 

Likely you are keeping up with one or more of these scenarios:

  • Being focused and productive working from home

  • Needing reliable internet at home

  • Remote learning/digital classrooms at home

  • Your child's energy levels or tantrums and moods associated with screentime

  • Your own needs for balance without your usual outlets such as a stroll outside, exercise, etc.

  • Maintaining balance at home if you have a child with neurological issues such as ADHD/ Autism

  • Maintaining connection with friends, family, or what's going on

  • Simply trying to conduct all the affairs of the world digitally as more go online

  • Avoiding the pitfalls of the above, including: having less exercise/movement, dry eyes, headaches, lethargy, etc.

If you could change just one thing at home, clearing out wireless electromagnetic pollution would make your daily life feel far less stressful and bring a lot more flow to your everyday tasks and roles.

Choosing to hardwire your home, or at least the devices you use often, is an instant upgrade for yourself and your home to a better biological space. And you only need to do this once!

Wired vs. wireless—what's the difference?

A wired connection uses an Ethernet cable to carry the data from the router to our devices (and vice versa) via ports in the back of the router. No energy is lost through the air.

A wireless (“WiFi”) connection uses antennas to connect us to the Internet wirelessly. WiFi uses microwave frequencies to carry data through the air from the router to our devices and vice versa. These microwave frequencies emit radiation, which penetrates our bodies and creates adverse biological effects.

Why choose a wired connection?

Going wired eliminates your bubble of "electrosmog"—the term commonly used to describe such invisible pollution.

Most of us won’t sit in cigarette smoke all day or even for an hour. But when you use a wireless device at home, you are constantly exposed to microwave radiation, rated a possible carcinogen, from both from the router and the device you use. Going wired is the simplest solution to completely eliminate these sources, reducing your overall load of exposure to radiation.

Moreover, if you are after faster, more secure, more reliable internet, wired connections are the way to go. The speed is incredible. Whether you are browsing pictures, videos, shopping pages loads almost instantly. No more scratchy Zoom meetings compromising quality of the connection, and your conversation.

It is also far more energy-efficient (it is pulsed by light). 

Wireless tech and your health

Radio frequency radiation emitted by wireless devices directly affects your organs, nervous system, and hormones because it interferes with biological processes on a cellular level.

It can manifest as a compromised immune system, chronic health issues, and/or an inability to recover from an illness. A growing body of science shows how WiFi radiation is associated with a long list of adverse biological effects:

Some common symptoms of WiFi are brain fog, fatigue (even if you've slept a "full night's sleep"), headaches and migraines, irritability, and gut disorders. If you’re feeling “off” despite having a relatively good diet and lifestyle, consider your invisible environment created by wireless devices.

Setting up a wired connection

It's much easier than you might think, and the cost is minimal (just several dollars for an Ethernet cable). Let’s go through this step by step.

STEP 1: Find out who is your Internet service provider. Do you have a standalone modem, or a 2-in1 unit that serves as both a modem and a router with WiFi built in it?

Most internet providers install a 2-in-1 modem/router unit, which also provides all internet/TV data through cell towers (i.e., wirelessly). Thus, these are very powerful WiFi-enabled modems.

I use TIME (in Malaysia) and have such a 2-in-1 modem/router, so that will be our example in this article.

STEP 2: Disable WiFi.

There are a few options to disable WiFi, depending on your modem/router.

  1. Simply switch off the WiFi button, if your router has such a button.

  2. Depending on your service provider, you can also request a basic modem that has no WiFi capabilities.

    In my example, TIME informed me that "There is no device that comes with such function [WiFi disabled].”

  3. Access your WiFi settings. To do this, you log in to the admin GUI of the modem/router. Find out the link by calling your Internet Provider Customer Service and select the router that you are currently using. At the link, you may head to the wireless settings. It will look something like this

Example

Manufactor/ Model: Wireless Router TP-Link/ Archer C1200

http://XXX.XXX.X.XX

PW: PASSWORD

UN: USERNAME

Turn off WiFi. But if you do choose to switch it on in the future, now is a good time to adjust your WiFi preferences:

  • Set your WiFi signal power to “low". The default setting is usually “high” or “100%". This is usually in the Advanced Settings, where you may find the option to specify the data transmit power.

  • Unselect “Enable wireless radio”. The router has internal wireless radios that broadcast signals in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz range. By default, they are on so that you can connect wirelessly to the router. When the wireless radios are off, you can still use an Ethernet cable for a LAN connection to the router.

  • Change the beacon interval from default 100ms or above to 1000ms or above. This reduces pulse speed and interval.

Accessing your WiFi settings by logging on to the admin GUI of the modem/router. Here is the basic main page.

Accessing your WiFi settings by logging on to the admin GUI of the modem/router. Here is the basic main page.

Accessing your WiFi settings by logging on to the admin GUI of the modem/router. Here is the wireless settings in the ‘Advanced’ tab.

Accessing your WiFi settings by logging on to the admin GUI of the modem/router. Here is the wireless settings in the ‘Advanced’ tab.

STEP 3: Also disable WiFi in your devices.

This means selecting "Flight/Airplane mode" in your device and turning off all antennas (i.e., Bluetooth, wifi). This will keep it from radiating and searching for a network while you use the device. These include:

  • Your computer (laptop, iPad, tablet, desktop)

  • Printers, projectors, and appliances

  • Anything else that might have WiFi capability

STEP 4: Choose a shielded Ethernet cable that is long enough to go from your router or Ethernet outlet to your device. One per device.

Cables can be another source of EMF radiation and so need to be shielded.

Either flat or round Cables work. A 3 or 5-metre long cable is likely long enough to connect from your router/port to your laptop, phone or computer. I use a Cat 7 Ethernet Cable bought via UGreen on Lazada.

You'll likely need an adaptor for your mobile devices. 

All modern desktops and laptops have Ethernet ports, so you do not need adaptors for those devices.

Not all mobile phones make lightning-to-Ethernet adaptors. I tried a few via Lazada. These off-label "Lightning to Ethernet" adaptors vary in quality. Ex: iPhone here and Samsung phones here.

STEP 5: All you need to do now is simply connect your Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port behind the modem and into your device.

And that's it! You now have a wired internet connection at home.

If you live in a bigger space and/or have multiple devices, you could use an Ethernet switch, which has ports to connect multiple Ethernet cables wherever they need to go around the house. For example: your TV or media player.

What changes can you expect?

Cleaning up electrosmog at home is an important part of creating a biological sanctuary for your health. Removing your personal sources allows your body to "breathe" again as it can communicate on an intercellular level. Only an on-site assessment of your home will show exactly if there are other polluting sources. But simply eliminating your own bubble of electrosmog can create big changes.

Often one profound difference is simply no longer feeling fatigued all the time. Other mind/body benefits you may experience are:

  • Less brain fog

  • More mental clarity

  • Fewer distractions

  • Sharper and longer focus

  • Better memory

These body-mind changes pave the way for you to reap more benefits such as being more mindful and present and having better relationships.

People who are more environmentally sensitive, including those with ADHD or autism, may find that they experience more balanced moods and less aggression. 

Your indoor space is your a biological sanctuary

Separation from Nature is illusory. But for many of us, the way our homes (and other built spaces) are set up has divorced us from many natural elements we require to thrive. And it’s inadvertently introduced pollutants into our private spaces.

During scenarios when we are confined indoors, we can choose to take control of our home spaces and ensure that it is set up for our health, for our wellbeing, so that home is where we can rest and rejuvenate ourselves.

The time is now to make the change to go wired in an increasingly digitised world. Never have we retreated indoors in this way—in millions—probably in the history of mankind and we hope we will not have to for long. We’re feeling and seeing the consequences in small and big ways every day, as we feel the loss of connection, support, and resources, whether we count it as food, friends, or a stroll out in the park.

The toll from a lowered immune system due to social and physical restrictions cannot yet be counted, when our access to the natural outdoors, fresh air, and sunlight is reduced.

Choosing the Great Wired Experiment

Because most of us have never been in a truly low-EMF environment, we cannot feel or know the difference. We do not become conscious of the adverse effects, and never associate EMF exposures to illness or symptoms.

We can choose to create a sanctuary for the biological calm and supportive environment that our cells crave. Going wired will change your immediate environment. You will be able to experience for yourself whether you and other family members feel and sleep better.

Do you have questions about going wired? Let me know how you are tackling EMR at home or work with #thegreatwiredexperiment

Get in touch with me for a free consult call on creating better spaces by hardwiring your devices. Or to download this quick guide on how to switch from wired to wireless at home.