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

[Tom Haavisto]

I guess the bigger question is - why is there so much RF in your shack to
blow stuff up?

How are your antennas oriented that they are able to put so much RF in your
shack...

Tom - VE3CX


On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
kgordon2006 at frontier.com> 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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