Re: My network speed is only 10MB

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> You have a fundamental misunderstanding induced EMI/RFI.  The source of
> the interference must be relatively close, physically, to the cable, in
> order for the cable to pick up sufficient noise to interfere with
> signals.  A power plant, or even a Tesla coil, in the building next door
> will have zero effect on your cables' signal integrity.
Not always the case.  A lot of electrical equipment - elevators for 
example - can put huge
spikes on power lines.  And while an elevator equipment room may be 
floors away from
your LAN cable, it's attached to power cabling that runs all over the place.

Of course, having said that, that doesn't necessarily make a case for 
shielded cable.  Induced
currents in poorly wired power-line grounding probably effect you more 
if you're using shielded
cable connected to that same grounding.

Miles Fidelman

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