At 01:57 PM 03/15/2000 , you wrote:
>Dear Listers;
>
>We got a new PCMCIA ethernet card and we connect it to RJ-45 connector.
>The connection works fine, but there is one piece of hardware that came
>with the card that we could find only its name on the package, but nothing
>in the manual. The piece is called 'EMI Shield Clip'.
>
>What is it for ? How do we use it ?


EMI is "electromagnetic interference."  The internal circuits of personal computers
generate RF fields.  These emissions can interfere with the performance
of sensitive wireless receivers nearby.  If you have a wireless receiver of any
kind and use it at the same time as you operate your personal computer, you will
probably hear RF noise in the receiver that originates in the PC system.

Typically that clip is added to the cable to ground out EMI and solve this issue.  You
can just clip it on the network cable to solve these problems if they occur...  but,
remember they are rare.

       Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group

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