have you tried shielded Ethernet cables between the box and router? I forget 
exactly what it's called but I have a run around here somewhere,  haven't 
seen it since the move but I still have about 15 boxes I have yet to go 
through too and at least 3 are computer stuff. There is shielded Ethernet 
cable out there though if you can find it, that *should* fix your problem. I 
have a 12 foot run of it here somewhere but not sure where. I have Tivo 
hooked to my router with no problems with regular Ethernet cat5 cable. 
Something I had a while back though did have a similar problem and that's 
what I did to fix it. I don't know much about those boxes, but there's got 
to be a fix.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless router


> as far as RFI issues.
> well, here's my personal situation.
> I have a 2wire wireless router/modem as supplied by my internet provider.
> range is excellent, and wireless speed is exactly the same as when 
> connected
> directly to the LAN.
> however, after some investigation recently, I found that all my really bad
> noise issues on HF and VHF/UHF, in fact, pretty much any where my radio
> receives, was coming from the router.  I tried ferrite rings, different
> electrical outlets and on and on, but the noise occurs even on HT's in the
> apartment.
> After some more trouble shooting, I actually isolated the problem to my
> digital PVR TV box.  Disconnecting that got rid of the noise utterly...not 
> a
> peep of noise on HF or VHF.  the noise basically sounds like carriers on 
> FM
> and hetrodyn on HF.  So i'm not really sure if it is the router causing 
> the
> noise when transfering data down the fairly long run of cat5 to the tv 
> box,
> or the tv box itself.  I tried ferrite rings on the tv boxes power chord, 
> as
> well as the network cable it uses...no luck in even quieting the radio
> noise.
> I've got a 20FT run of cat5 going to a computer in the radio room, and 
> when
> I disconnect this cable from the router, the noise gets reduced a
> little...unplugging the tv box gets rid of it completely.  My thoughts are
> that the tv box is to blame here and is putting some crazy amount of data
> noise onto the cables and thus making the smaller run of cat5 going to the
> pc act as a radiater of sorts for the noise.  Any other cables attached to
> the LAN seem to do the same thing, act as radiators.
>
> Really not sure what to do here.
> The noise can get up to 40 over S9 on VHF, so bad in fact that I can't
> monitor simplex frequencies or repeaters that don't have PL tones.  On HF,
> the hetrodyn is S8 to S9.  it's in different places across the bands, so I
> can still receive signals, as long as they aren't on frequencies where the
> noise occurs.
> this is digital TV, meaning that it is supplied over the internet and
> distributed in the house to digital boxes on the LAN from the router.
> So, I guess if you have tv boxes that you'll be connecting to the router,
> you'll have to watch out for this.
> when the tv box is disconnected, the wireless doesn't seem to make any 
> noise
> at all on HF, VHF or UHF.
> i've tried moving antennas and rerouting feedlines, no luck there either.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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