Put all Ethernet cables inside shielded liquidtight flex conduit.  You can
buy it st an electrical supply shop.

Be sure to run the conduit to a metal box at the top and then breakout to
each ap in smaller shielded conduit.

-sean


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> It looks like the old archives aren't back online yet, so I couldn't go
> searching through there for ideas.
>
> I have a site where we have been co-locating with a 800w FM Transmitter
> for years.  We've always had Ethernet problems at the site since the FM
> went in.  Everything is shielded cat5 (Belden 7919).  It is at a grain
> elevator, our equipment is on one corner of the platform, and the FM
> Transmitter is on the other corner.  We are horizontally separated by
> about 10 feet.  There is no way to get vertical separation.  I used to
> run all the cables down to the bottom of the leg, about 100'.  In an
> effort to make the Ethernet work better, I installed an Edgepoint fed
> with Fiber at the top, so cable lengths between the radios and the
> Edgepoint are now 5'-10'. With the FM Transmitter turned off, everything
> runs perfectly.  When the FM is turned on, most equipment drops to
> 100mb, and some goes down to 10mb.  On the most problematic equipment, I
> have installed the 4 pair FM Filters from Sandman
> http://www.sandman.com/rf.html within 12" of both the switch and the
> radio.  It made no change.
>
> What FM Elimination tricks have I forgotten to try?  I was really
> expecting the short cable lengths to solve the problem.
>
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