Switching off router at night = no phone!

[Loft]

I've just realised if I wanted to be able to use my landline when the switch over to digital happens, I would need to keep my router switched on. Currently my pc and router are switched off in late afternoon when I stop work and not switched on until morning. This is not going to change. What should people who are electrosensitive (as we all are but some people feel it) do? I do not use a mobile phone. I do not use wifi. I think this coralling of us all into an electro smog with no choice to opt out is outrageous. I may be a dinosaur but rather a healthier dinosaur than a sickening automaton!

Perhaps I am jumping the gun here and there may be a way around it. Can anyone advise? Many thanks.

[licquorice]

Of course there isn't a way around it, how on earth do you think broadband will work without a router powered up?

Do you switch your fridge and freezer off overnight as well?

[iniltous]

Currently how many calls do you receive after your self imposed switch off ….none I’d guess , so a complete none issue …..do you live somewhere so remote that you have no neighbours etc , so that their WiFi and mobile radiation doesn’t pollute your home ? , it’s most likely that you switching off your own router at a point in time is pointless if you do have neighbours , it also begs the question why you have broadband at all , or is your sensitivity only during the night time.

Want a way around it , put your router in a faraday cage , and run your corded phone through a gap  in the cage , FYI , DV isn’t ‘WiFi’ the router has a DECT basestation, but you don’t need to use a cordless phone, a corded phone in a faraday cage with WiFi switched off but the router switched on  should meet your requirements , or leave WiFi on and rely on the faraday cage to ‘capture’ the thing you apparently have a part time sensitivity too

[chrisjp]

If you don't use WiFi then presumably you've switched this off at the router. In which case, what is the "electro smog" that you think is emanating from it?
As Licquorice has said, do you switch ALL electrical appliances in your house off overnight?

[WSH]

And what happened to the dinosaurs, (healthy or otherwise)?

Seems strange that you can work with it during the day, (when you are presumably closer to it), but then have to turn it off when you go to bed, (when you are presumably in a completely different part of the house).  As someone with both a science and an IT background, I'd be curious to see the evidence you (fail to) cite for this electrosensitivty.

[Kimberlin]

@Loft 

This is going to come across as incredibly flippant, but I’m guessing you don’t travel abroad? You’d have to avoid airports like the plague, radar/WiFi. Same with shops, trains etc. Indeed you’d also have to avoid every cellphone mast on whatever journeys you make from day to day.

Basically, you’d have to put yourself in a Faraday box 24/7.

[Manatarms84]

The digital voice service needs your hub to be turned on but you can dial in to your hub and turn off the wi-fi if you wish to (Unsure if you do this already) - as others have said digital voice uses DECT technology which has been around as long as cordless phones.  Also no one is forcing you to use the service this is simply how the technology works.

[WSH]

I don't quite understand why people keep mentioning DECT in this context.

Wi-Fi and DECT are both radio waves and not that disimilar in their frequency/wavelength.  In fact, so close that when Wi-Fi became popular they had to shift DECT slightly to stop it interfering.  I would expect the power output to also be similar, (although I might be wrong).

If this sensitivity phenomenon exists, (and I have my doubts), then DECT is likely to be just as bad as Wi-Fi.

[iniltous]

Obviously can’t speak for others, but in my case , mentioning DECT was preemptive, in that I suspected that if the OP was advised to turn off the router WiFi , but not turning off the router completely, the next comment from the OP would be something like ‘  the phone won’t work if I did that ‘ hence the additional advice around a faraday cage (to suppress both WiFi and DECT to assuage the OP’s somewhat irrational fears ) and a corded phone , which presumably the OP has , it would be comical if their phone was DECT which they were OK with , but not WIFI 

[gg30340]

If you check your property with a wireless receiver you will find there arr wireless signals from various sources in every part of your house. This includes mobile phone signals. Do you have a mobile phone?

There is no escape. It is a fact of living in the 21st Century.

If you want a landline you need to leave your Internet connected.