In message 
<[email protected]>, dated 
Mon, 4 Oct 2010, "Pawson, James" <[email protected]> writes:

>If the magnetics you use for your Ethernet have a centretap on the 
>input side of the transformer (sometimes connected to a voltage rail, 
>sometimes to ground) then you should try filtering the supply to this 
>with an RC or bead-cap filter.

You mean the sending end transformer, I suppose. Exactly how do you 
connect the filter? After all, if the CT is grounded, and you introduce 
a resistor or bead into the grounding wire, where do you connect the 
'cold' end of the capacitor? It surely can't go back to ground!
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