Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-15 Thread Jayson Baker
How weird. We need exactly this too. A building we're in that used to be two, but were combined, and each have their own service drops. There's a difference in ground potential. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen a telephone (copper pair)

[WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-14 Thread Greg Ihnen
I've seen a telephone (copper pair) optoisolator which had a short piece of fiberoptic cable inside. Each circuit on both sides of the cable had their own highly isolated power supplies. This was the only thing that worked in the Amazon region to stop phone equipment from getting wiped out

Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-14 Thread Philip Dorr
We use two fiber transceivers and a jumper on our ethernet when we want to have electrical isolation. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen a telephone (copper pair) optoisolator which had a short piece of fiberoptic cable inside. Each circuit on both

Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-14 Thread Greg Ihnen
That sounds expensive. I wonder if that would help in where there's rf problems like at high power broadcast colo's Greg On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Philip Dorr wrote: We use two fiber transceivers and a jumper on our ethernet when we want to have electrical isolation. On Sun, Mar 14,

Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-14 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 14 March 2010 23:05, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds expensive. I wonder if that would help in where there's rf problems like at high power broadcast colo's Not terribly expensive. http://www.google.com/products?q=100base+fx+media+converterspell=1oi=spell

Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet?

2010-03-14 Thread Justin Wilson
wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Optoisolator for Ethernet? That sounds expensive. I wonder if that would help in where there's rf problems like at high power broadcast colo's Greg On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Philip Dorr wrote: We use two fiber transceivers and a jumper on our