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{mosgoogle} Earlier this year I purchased the Microsoft LifeChat ZX-6000 headset and the Logitech VX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks.
They are both 2.4 GHz wireless products and while I've used wireless for a long time and worked in wireless environments for a number of years, I've never used a wireless product that I came into physical contact with until now. Rest assured I won't be going wireless again.
The problems started when I started to get headaches when I used the wireless headset and pain in my arm when I used the wireless mouse. It didn't take long to figure out that it was the products doing this.
I purchased the products from a Swedish online store called Dustin Home. I'm not linking to them simply because I don't think you should be buying these products or anything else from this company. In my opinion, they've failed to take responsibility and are only concerned with revenue.
I emailed the company I bought these products from shortly after getting them and they've done nothing. Maybe it's because I don't speak Swedish.
I've emailed Logitech and Microsoft about the issues I've had with these products but I've not heard back from them. I have since searched the net and I've found other people complaining about headaches and pains in the arm using the exact same products.
Surely it can't be a coincidence that others are also suffering pains from wireless products that you actually come into physical contact with?
Anyway, I've gone back to wired products and I'm in the process of wiring up the house instead of using the wireless router. It's not that I know these things are going to create a long term problem, it's that nobody is coming out with conclusive evidence that they won't.
My advice; don't go wireless unless you have to and make sure you test the products out very quickly so the company that you bought them from doesn't say you can't return them because you only had 14 days to test them.
some interesting reading on the subject:
Wi-fi 'should be banned in schools'
WiFi worry
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