Posted by casper on Apr 22, 2020; 9:08pm
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Internet-via-satellite-tp4035329p4035345.html

None of these technologies is 100% safe, because in the end, you will need to plug an electrical data cable into your computer in order to communicate with the outside world, and this cable can always carry EMF with it.

But if you use any wireless technology, you will irradiate yourself and the whole environment. If you use any wired technology, you will only irradiate a small area around the cable, and if you use fiber optics, you will not irradiate anything.

So, fiber optics is in principle the best option. BUT, keep in mind that even the light that travels in the cable, will have to be converted to electricity for your computer. And since this converter (the fiber optic modem) is itself a computer, it may produce local EMF.

There is no way around this problem, because all our computers today still run on electricity, and therefore in the end any communication with the computer has to be in electrical form.

So..optical is the safest, but anyone choosing optical, has to be aware that the optical converters at the end of the cable may cause trouble for some people.

As for 5G interfering with optical fibers, or the fibers carrying 5G signals, this is impossible. 5G is radio-frequency radiation, optical fiber is isolated light. These two things cannot influence each other in any way.

If I had a choice, I would choose fiber, but somehow try to check that the fiber modem itself does not cause me trouble.