AirPort Extreme & Electrical Outlet Timer

Hello

I have the newest AirPort Extreme (http://www.apple.com/shop/product/ME918LL/A/airport-extreme?fnode=7f) and I recently moved to my room in my basement to the second guest room floor providing a 2.4 GHz and the private network wifi 5 GHz (two separate networks) to my house.

I read on the sleep disorders causing wifi signals and how it can cause generally negative effects be exposed continuously to EMF signals.

What I'm wondering is it would be harmful to my AirPort Extreme to put it on a timer plug (ELS https://www.amazon.com/Enover-Programmable-Digital-3-prong-Appliances/dp/B0191ZG/ref = sr_1_2? ie = UTF8 & qid = 1469557186 & SR...) so that I can program it to turn off the power to the router around 11:30 and turn it on again around 06:00; eliminating privileged exposure to EMF for me and potential customers during the hours of sleep?

I understand that many of us may be divided or not there is any real effect signals wifi on sleep/general health-it's NOT what I'm asking.

Everything interests me is whether or not it would be damaging for the router AirPort Extreme to cut the power at night via a programmer power socket and then to restore it again in the morning on a daily basis.  It will shorten the life expectancy of my router?  This will degrade the quality of my wifi over time signal?  Thank you in advance for the answers!

-Scott

"What I was wondering is it would be harmful to my AirPort Extreme to put it on a timer output so that I can program it to turn off the power to the router around 11:30 and turn it on again around 06:00; eliminating exposure to EMF for me and potential customers during the hours of sleep first? »

The debate about so consistently turn a device and off is better or worse that just leaving all the time has happened since household electronic appliances were introduced.

One school of thought argues that constant power down and the cycle puts more emphasis on the electronics inside that just letting the device at any time and this extra stress can lead to a shorter life for the product.

Another school says it does not matter as the power on and off the power of everyday, or has left the whole time that the life expectancy of the product is concerned.

Make your choice... good arguments can be advanced for or against powering a device works every day. Call him a link if you want, or return a coin.

Personally, I lean toward the school "let him", if not because the internet connection and network is likely to be more reliable in this way. In other words, if you turn off the airport at night and power it back up the next day, the airport will lose its Internet connection and network and be forced to establish a new connection when it is consumed in back to the top, with more chance of something going wrong.

Although I leave the airport on almost all the time, if I'll be gone for a few days or more, then I usually turn off the airport if I remember to do it before my departure... to save a few pennies on the electricity bill.

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