On 12/16/19 9:13 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 2019-12-16 11:37 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
must have been refined somehow as I have had better luck with powerline wifi extenders having two cat5/6 ports than with regular (radio) wifi extenders.
Have you checked for the interference those devices generate? Those devices operate at over 100 MHz, which power lines are not designed to carry. While the signal may travel over the cable, power cables do not have the tight twists that CAT 5 or 6 has, to prevent radiation. The signalling rate for 100 Mb and Gb Ethernet is 125 M symbols/second.
I've been using a pair of Zyxel power-line adapters for almost six years without any issues. The two ends are on the same circuit breaker with 14-AWG Romex copper wiring. The AC circuit feeds multiple drops in multiple rooms and so would have plenty of antenna possibilities. How would anyone know that there's a problem? No more analog television, and the only AM radio I have is in the car. What would Ethernet power-line interference look like? I do recall problems in the past. In the analog television days we'd have a certain channel messed up by a powerful Mexican TV station in Tijuana. We also had a Ham a few doors down who would step on TV channels and would even bleed into the POTS twisted-pair wiring. We couldn't use the telephone when he was transmitting! The problem went away after I had some "words" with him. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org