I'm pretty sure it was one computer that was causing the problem. One of
the symptoms was slow network traffic between other machines -- down to
50kbps sometimes on 100Mbps segments. Just powering up the offending
computer and letting it sit at a bios screen would cause the problem.
Power it down again and everything else went back to normal. It was a
cheapie MB and power supply, and I never tried anything else after the
ferrite core fixed it.
Karl
--On Friday, June 29, 2001 14:12 -0700 Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If you have that kind of trouble with CAT-5 I would suggest getting
> someone in to test the cables and find out where the noise is coming
> from (it could be as simple as a kink or a mouse chewed it, etc.). I
> don't think you should ever need to put a ferrite core on CAT-5, it's
> already designed to reduce noise through it's twisted pair design. If
> the cable is up to specification and the ends are terminated properly it
> should be fine up to, at least, 50 meters. AFAIK, if you were to do
> something like that on a Levington install, you would void the lifetime
> warranty.
>
> Scott.
>
>
