Disable WLAN on Squeezebox Touch

[qirex]

I concur completely. In fact, I feel we should organize ourselves and petition microwave oven manufacturers, as well as cordless phone companies and bluetooth device makers to stop selling their products, as they also operate in the same radio spectrum as wireless network devices.

Also whoever is responsible for that big ball of gas in the sky that mercilessly broadcasts massive amounts of electromagnetic radiation at the earth for HOURS a day.

[Mnyb]

Also whoever is responsible for that big ball of gas in the sky that mercilessly broadcasts massive amounts of electromagnetic radiation at the earth for HOURS a day.

Thats actually an unshielded fusion reactor !!

[mozart_puccini]

not too much to joke about

Well, I knew that I would triger such concersations and people starting to make fun of someone trying to be reasonable. I truly appreciate John's useful comments on how to switch off the WLAN devide, that is what I want to do.

BTW, let me give you my thinking concerning the discussion about microwave and all the other things which we are exposed to anyhow:

YES, we are exposed to microwavem YES, we receive UMTS and other micro waves all over. Compare micro wave to radio actrivity. A few waves dont kill you tha tis right, BUT the waves accumulate like x-rays in your body. So the goal must not be to resignate and give up because there is too much radio out there, the way forward shoule be INTELLIGENT use of digital micro waves where we need them. Do I need WLAN in my childs room if I have a CAT7 Ethernet plug in her room? I hope you agree that its foolish to expose a child to more waves if a CAT7 is availabe. Thanks for all the jokes. Time will tell. I hope your jokes all remain jokes in 10 - 15 years from now. In that sense.

[NewBuyer]

The Touch DOES do a form of shutting down the wifi radio if that connection is not being used, but that does not necessarily completely disable the radio. If you have a USB or SD card plugged in they are being shared via samba and that might still be accessed via wifi from another device even if the touch's player is currently being fed from a wire. So the wifi is still there but not doing much. Every so often it keeps track of whats out there and if any body wants to connect.

The command I gave shuts it down completely, period.

John S.

Hi John Swenson - I too am grateful for the extremely helpful information. Thanks!

To Mozart Puccini - Like you (and many others), I prefer to minimize these exposures in my home - there is nothing wrong with that, especially when children are involved. Try to have a sense of humor with some of the other posts around here - it's just a convenient way that some people express their opinion. After all, it is actually kind of an amusing simple line of reasoning, don't you agree? If something's popular, legal, and can't be perceived with the senses, then it clearly must be absolutely & exactly identical to all else that fits that same description, and therefore must "obviously" be perfectly ok and fine - right? I hope so!

[ghostrider]

I can't figure out why you would buy a touch for a five year old.

[Valentino]

Been having fun, have we?

Some people like to turn off radio transmitters they don't need. We don't know yet how well our specimen react to them just yet, so why not provide us waaaay too careful family men with an Off switch?

[jamesg]

The proverbial 'Off Switch' ... the wives of us family men are hoping for one too!

[JJZolx]

The Touch DOES do a form of shutting down the wifi radio if that connection is not being used, but that does not necessarily completely disable the radio. If you have a USB or SD card plugged in they are being shared via samba and that might still be accessed via wifi from another device even if the touch's player is currently being fed from a wire. So the wifi is still there but not doing much. Every so often it keeps track of whats out there and if any body wants to connect.

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. The radio may still be on (I have no way to tell), but it's certainly not connected to the network. If you were to set up a Touch from scratch with a wired connection then it wouldn't even have credentials to connect wirelessly. Plus, the wireless and wired interfacs use the same MAC address, so I don't know how it would work in any case.

I just ran a little test, changing from a wireless to a wired connection (so the wireless credentials may still be stored somewhere). As soon as the Touch connected to the wired network it was immediately dropped from the list of connected clients shown on my wireless access point.

[jstraw]

"BUT the waves accumulate like x-rays in your body."

Well, alrighty then!

[Phil Leigh]

"BUT the waves accumulate like x-rays in your body."

Well, alrighty then!

yeah - I missed that bit... so waves accumulate do they... funny that, I thought they just passed through, like a... like a ... WAVE!

X-rays do NOT "accumulate" - unlike mercury in the blood stream!. This is total BS. What actually happens is that the chance of spontaneous cell mutation increases with increased exposure. It's a probability thing.

[erland]

yeah - I missed that bit... so waves accumulate do they... funny that, I thought they just passed through, like a... like a ... WAVE!

X-rays do NOT "accumulate" - unlike mercury in the blood stream!.

But...music waves accumulate in my head and I consider my head to be a part of my body. At least I can often remember them later if they have passed through my head at least once.
:-)

However, I can't say I've so far remembered any WiFi waves...

[Valentino]

Now I wonder what prolonged exposure to Wagner will do to me.

[jstraw]

yeah - I missed that bit... so waves accumulate do they... funny that, I thought they just passed through, like a... like a ... WAVE!

X-rays do NOT "accumulate" - unlike mercury in the blood stream!. This is total BS. What actually happens is that the chance of spontaneous cell mutation increases with increased exposure. It's a probability thing.

"...and I (as a physisist)..."

I should have included that too, for added humor.

[NewBuyer]

...However, I can't say I've so far remembered any WiFi waves...

That's because they killed those particular brain cells along the way. You shouldn't worry about it though, since you will of course forget all about this by tomorrow...

[dennis55]

You will have an irresistible urge to parade down the Champs Elysee in a swaggering manner

Now I wonder what prolonged exposure to Wagner will do to me.