[UK-CONTEST] re ADSL Modem RFI

[Ian Maude]

This has been an interesting thread for me for several reasons.  Firstly,
*both* my routers (main and spare) expired with different faults at the same
time and it had to be a Sunday!  I nipped out and bought a Netgear router.
 I should have known better due to past difficulties but I needed to keep
the cluster running :)
The Netgear hates 80m.  This newer model was better and could stand 50W
without dropping the connection.  Anything toward 100W and a reasonable over
and the connection would drop due to queue length.
I bought a DLink G624T online and connected that up.  This is the same as
the router that died and has no such problems.  I can run 400W without
losing a single ping!
I was a BT engineer for most of my working life and the dropwire crosses the
trap dipole but at right angles and well away from the current maximum.  The
line then comes straight into the shack and on to a filtered NTE.  I have
done many tests, moving the router and reconnecting wiring etc.  The DLink
works every time without issues.
Now I know of other people who have the opposite experience and I have yet
to discover why.  I cannot imagine why one router would be so much better
than another in this regard.  I used the same line cord with both routers
using 2 ferrite cores at each end of the cord with about 8 turns on each
one.

73 Ian

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Ian J Maude, G0VGS
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