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Hello, My name is Trish. I have MCS and live in a specialized community where all the rooms are lined with procelain(fused glass on steel) - the floor, ceiling, walls - everything. The building I live in, is in fact, procelain on the outside too. I have mild to moderate EMF sensitivity when I am outside or in non-metal buildings, but inside my home, I am much more sensitive. I sort of understand why this is.
I am on SSDI and it is not enough. I have just had an appointment with my state's vocational rehabilitation agency so they can help me with some kind of work I can do from home. Of course, I already know that any kind of work from home job that is not assembly work (which doesn't pay enough to balance out the dent in my income it would make by reducing some of my other supports like foodstamps) requires the use of high speed internet. DSL and cable are not available where I live. Does anyone know if there are some kinds of wireless internet that are more tolerable than others? Or how to mitigate the EMF inside my metal home that is emitted from both the computer itself and the wireless internet service?
I am typing this at a friend's house down the street who is also a member of this group. She lives in a mobile home that has hardy plank siding, not metal. Here I can spend a long time on the computer and watch tv for a long time with less bad effects than I can at home. She has dial-up internet service. She tried wifi and could not tolerate it. Recently, we both purchased 3G "broadband2go" usb devices to see if we could get high speed internet and both sit inside her house with our laptops. I tolerated it inside her house, but she didn't. She had me sit in her car to use it, and I didn't do well with it because the car is metal.

On January  6, trishaleh <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Recently, we both purchased 3G "broadband2go" usb devices to see if we
> could get high speed internet and both sit inside her house with our laptops.
> I tolerated it inside her house, but she didn't. She had me sit in her car to
> use it, and I didn't do well with it because the car is metal.

Welcome Trish!  When you used the broadband2go USB device, was it attached
directly to your computer, or did you attach it to a USB extension cable?  You
can put these devices at the end of 15 foot (or greater) USB extension cords,
so you are further away from the 3G transmitter / receiver (you could even
stick it outside the window).

As for other things you can do to make things more tolerable, well there
are EMF protection devices that work for some of us.  For example, things
from quantumproducts.com, earthcalm.com, planet-tachyon.com,
www.highchi.com, etc.  For some of us these can be very helpful.  For
others not.

Marc

wow the 3g dongles are the worst ! dont go there - just get a ethernet  
cable setup and have wired broadband ?
 
puk
 
 
In a message dated 07/01/2013 00:21:26 GMT Standard Time,  
[hidden email] writes:

 
 
 
Hello, My name is Trish. I have MCS and live in a specialized community  
where all the rooms are lined with procelain(fused glass on steel) - the  
floor, ceiling, walls - everything. The building I live in, is in fact,  
procelain on the outside too. I have mild to moderate EMF sensitivity when I  am
outside or in non-metal buildings, but inside my home, I am much more  
sensitive. I sort of understand why this is.
I am on SSDI and it is not  enough. I have just had an appointment with my
state's vocational  rehabilitation agency so they can help me with some kind
of work I can do from  home. Of course, I already know that any kind of
work from home job that is  not assembly work (which doesn't pay enough to
balance out the dent in my  income it would make by reducing some of my other
supports like foodstamps)  requires the use of high speed internet. DSL and
cable are not available where  I live. Does anyone know if there are some
kinds of wireless internet that are  more tolerable than others? Or how to
mitigate the EMF inside my metal home  that is emitted from both the computer
itself and the wireless internet  service?
I am typing this at a friend's house down the street who is also a  member
of this group. She lives in a mobile home that has hardy plank siding,  not
metal. Here I can spend a long time on the computer and watch tv for a  long
time with less bad effects than I can at home. She has dial-up internet  
service. She tried wifi and could not tolerate it. Recently, we both purchased
 3G "broadband2go" usb devices to see if we could get high speed internet
and  both sit inside her house with our laptops. I tolerated it inside her
house,  but she didn't. She had me sit in her car to use it, and I didn't do
well with  it because the car is metal.






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Hi Marc! :-)
 
I'm the friend that Trish was referring to. 
 
Thanks for all of your suggestions!  We did plug the USB 3G antenna directly into my computer's USB port, and I had a bad reaction to it right away.  However, I may look into getting a USB extension cable (first I have to figure out a length that will work for me).  And thanks for the links you posted, as well. 
 
Trish and I both live out in the country, or else we'd have both invested in either DSL or cable internet by now. 
 
 
Ciel
:+)


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