[RFI] RF getting into 4-port wirelss router.

[Pat]

You could go all or mostly wireless. Use a wireless bridge to replace 
the run of CAT-5 to the shack and plug the dumb hub into that so that 
there are no long Ethernet runs.

Pat
wa4tuk


On 1/11/2015 10:57 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> OK, gang, I need some different help here.
>
> I have a 4 port wireless router (Trendnet TEW-812DRU at the moment)
> connected to our main computer and two others in the home, not including
> the laptops that connect to it periodically.
>
> I have replaced the router at least 4 times over the past year or two due to
> the fact that RF from my ham station is getting into it through one or more of
> the three CAT-5 cables I have connected to it.
>
> I have installed several of those snap-on filters on all three of the CAT-5
> cables which connect to it, and also on both ends of the DC power cable,
> making seveal "loops" through each filter.
>
> I still wipe out the router every time I get on the air. I have destroyed one
> $169.00 router, and two less expensive ones, a TPNET and a Cisco.
>
> The only solution I have come up with is to disconnect the CAT-5 cables (all
> three of them) from the router each time I get on the air.
>
> Has anyone here had a similar problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?
>
> BTW, one of my CAT-5 cables runs to the ham shack, where it connects to a
> dumb 4 port switch...
>
> This has become a giant PITA.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
>
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