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Originally Posted by Angua
 Did you read it all the way through? As it seemed to imply it was relatively safe and benign as it was only transmitting for very short periods of time (unlike a mobile which is constantly collecting a signal).
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Short periods of time? Someone (for instance) surfing the net or downloading would be be causing it to transmit almost constantly.
Notice, for instance, the example that "If a user would transfer data on an average of 100 MB per day, the WLAN transmitter would be on the air for approximately 10 minutes."
We have people in this forum sometimes chafing about 1GB per day caps, and people who are threatened with speed reductions for usage in excess of 100GB a month. These are somewhat extreme examples, but think about how much data transfer you're really going to put through that link on a daily basis. Even if your daily usage is only 100MB per day, that isn't going to be in one 10 minute hit; it's going to be on and off over longer periods of time, thus spreading the exposure.
The other factor to consider is that it seems clear that there are other ways you can receive damage from proximity to RF transmissions than the usually touted ones of cancer. In fact, I find it somewhat disturbing that there seems to be little or no research into these, despite some of them being considerably more likely to cause long term damage than the described cancer possibilities.
And, whether you consider that damage from from RF transmissions is likely or not, I think that putting a child next to a transmitter for periods of time is more than any reasonable person ought to consider acceptable. Bear in mind that the government now advises that children should be limited in their use of mobile 'phones.
Sorry if this seems very negative, but I, for one, believe that the dangers from proximity to RF transmissions are being considerably underestimated - just as the dangers from smoking were for a long time until the the weight of evidence finally became too obvious to ignore. Even if I was prepared to risk exposing myself to something like the danger of using a mobile 'phone or a wireless network transmitter (which I'm not), there is no way I would even consider risking a child in that way.