Special to the Grapevine
SWITCHING TO FIBER?
READ THIS FIRST!
by William Thomas
CityWest’s recent open house attracted many Hornby islanders eager to switch from maddeningly slow to blazingly fast internet connections, even while streaming to multiple devices. Challenged by an initial seven districts proliferating “overnight” to 100 communities clamouring for fiber-optic connectivity, CityWest announced it will hire local technicians to provide Hornby-Denman service, while forming its own construction subsidiary to forego unreliable contractors.
FEES
Connection is free to any house within 80 meters of the main distribution line; $5/meter thereafter. Entry level internet will costs $100/month; streaming TV (40+ channels) starts at $27/month; and a discounted seniors package is available. (Contact Jenny at Customer Service: citywest@cwct.ca.)
CityWest’s phone service costs $26/month. Because it requires power, purchasing an Uninterruptible Power Supply will provide seamless battery backup during outages, until their standby generator kicks in. 911 will work without power.
MEET EMI
Though CityWest claimed it has received zero health complaints, Linda Armstrong related how a wireless-using acquaintance (whom this writer has met) moved to the Comox Valley when she began suffering acute electro-hypersensitivity after her Vancouver apartment building was connected to a fiber-optic network.
Leif LeBaron suggested that the problem was “dirty electricity” from poorly designed converters that transform clean optical data into the modulated electrical current feeding wireless routers through unshielded wiring.
As Jeromy at emfanalysis.com explains, these fiber-optic-to-copper converters “can generate high amounts of wide-spectrum EMI.” This Electromagnetic Interference “then piggybacks on the copper cable and phone lines into our homes, where it can radiate from every copper wire.”
Operating at .07 volt, human cellular interactions are easily disrupted by wireless radiation and electromagnetic interference. Jeromy underlines how “this EMI from the fiber-optic infrastructure is a primary reason why electrical sensitivity is increasing when high-speed internet is installed in our communities.”
EMI MITIGATION
An online search reveals industries, the military, and commercial aviation intent on protecting critical electrical equipment from dirty electricity. To prevent fibre-to-wire electrical interference being conducted into your family’s bodies and brains, EMI mitigators recommend disconnecting cable TV and phone lines when your fibre connection goes “live”.
You can further reduce your EMI exposure by selecting CityWest’s more-than-adequate 100 Mbps (megabytes-per-second) fiber-optic bundle. “Avoid 1 or 10 Gbps packages.”
Even better, eliminate dirty electricity before it gets inside by properly grounding your home wiring, and asking your CityWest installer to insert an EMI filter as close as possible to the fibre-optic/copper-line connection outside.
Finally, check to see that this incoming cable is NOT encased in a metal sheath, nor attached to a metal stiffener. If it is, ask the technician to remove the material cladding, “a few feet before it enters your home.”
POOR PRACTICES
Especially concerning was CityWest’s bafflement over Leif’s comments, and complete disregard for the health implications of their powerful “GigaSpire” routers. An alarming illustration in their publicity handout proudly compares the red-shading-to-yellow “hot spot” from a conventional wireless router with CityWest’s much stronger WiFi-6, which radiates bright red Electromagnetic Fields into every corner of a 1900 square-foot home. An optional “Extender” will continuously drive these buzzing EMF pulses through concrete, wood and glass into every living cell within 2,200 square-feet.
And beyond.
Talk about bait-and-switch! In their initial public presentation to sell their services here, CityWest had promised that all subscribers would be directly wired to their fiber-optic network. They did NOT disclose that their fibre-optic customers would, by default, be directly exposed to continuous EMFs from dual-band wireless routers many times more powerful than their older WiFi.
Turns out, CityWest’s “fiber-optic” service is in fact a fiber-optic/wireless hybrid.
For the unwary, relentless exposure to home routers, cordless phone bases and cell towers whipsawing cell membranes and DNA at 2.4 and 5 billion times per second can result in acute dis-ease for fetuses, children, seniors and the immune-compromised, including the mRNA vaxxed. Long-confirmed symptoms include:
sleep disturbance, insomnia, headaches, depression, anxiety, irritability, tiredness, fatigue, nausea, memory loss, restlessness and inability to concentrate (ADHD), dizziness, loss of appetite, and skin burning, itching or tingling. WiFi radiation is also well-documented to contribute to brain, heart and reproductive dysfunction. (Search: “BioInitiative 2012” for the updated BioInitiative 2022 report.)
The good news: While your installer will disable the GigaSpire’s wireless function on request, enough concern has been expressed over its “Blasters” that CityWest will now substitute a hard-wired router without any wireless function, on demand.
Your body, your choice? Ask your kids and your cat. And your neighbours next door.
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William Thomas has been reporting on wireless hazards since 1991.
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Editor’s references:
https://www.emfanalysis.com/fiber-optics-increasing-electrical-sensitivity/
https://bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/
“Jeromy” is correct
