Re: Windows 10 and 11 power state habits: shutdown, sleep or hibernate

On Mon, 1/26/2026 11:03 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:28:08 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/23/2026 10:37 PM, Paul wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> All machines except the daily driver are off.
>>> Nothing ever enters sleep state or hibernate state.
>>>
>>> Nothing can Fast Startup, with no hiberfile.
>>
>> Modern day wireless technology is absolutely terrifying. You just cannot 
>> let machines stay on **unattended**! ;)
> 
> What is it about modern wireless technology that terrifies you?
> 
> I'm wondering if I should be terrified, too. (OK, not really.)
> 

Man-wai is worried about his supply of microwave popcorn, getting
popped when he isn't looking :-)

The last report I saw on bioactivity of radio waves, was around
300MHz. There seems to be a correlation between smartphone usage
(held against the ear) and glial tumors in the head.

Wifi is not held against the head. The exposure level
is going to be quite a bit less. It's best to keep the
router (or a mesh device) in the same room with the computers,
so the P.A on each radio can be turned down by the software
(as a response to "enough bars" on receive).

   # Transmit power

   https://thenetworkguys.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/what-is-transmit-power-transmit-power-control-in-wi-fi/

Apparently, not all devices work properly, with regard to power adjustment.
Some, set to Auto Power, actually use High and don't adjust a thing.
Commercial devices used in office buildings, are more likely to have
dynamic adjustment on APs. And then their power level is a bit
more reasonable. About the best you can do on a home device, is
see if there is any interface to adjust it. And then manually
play with it. Turning down power can reduce multipath, but on a
MIMO interface with a lot of antennas, maybe that does not matter
quite as much.

   Paul