On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:07, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Just in case anybody thinks of actually doing this, I've heard that it > is a bad idea (read: fried components) because of the different > electrical ground potential (or something like that) in each house.
That's not really a problem because of the floating nature of the Ethernet signal and its isolation. What scares the crap out of electrical engineers is the possibility of what happens when everything breaks down - say, the cat piddles on the switch. Read what Volker wrote. I have a CAT5 cable going for 100m between houses on different supplies. It works. I don't lose sleep over it. YMMV. Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
