In my house, I installed optical fiber when the walls were open for a
remodel. I chose unpopular and cheap ST connector style and used
multimode fiber, which is good only for "short" runs (i.e. not for
metropolitan wiring. As a result, I was able to get 10mb and 100mb to
fiber converters for $30 and cable for free or cheap. In my shack Linux
box, I used a fiber PCI for I paid $10 on eBay. So, there are no long
runs of Cat5 anywhere in my house, only short runs from DSL modem to the
fiber converter and the 802.11 device.
As a result of doing this and switching to 10mb for the places where
that was fast enough, I have eliminated the birdies I generate. Now I
have a directional antenna on 20m and can rotate it to find the null.
Someday I may go door-to-door and offer "help" but I may wait until
802.11n comes out and see if I can find a good device, and then
recommend it as an upgrade.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 7:01 am, Alan Biocca wrote:
Another technique is to put things on wifi and reduce or eliminate the
wired network. 2.4 GHZ doesn't generally bother HF.
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