Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-28 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you express your view on the subject and/or give some online > pointers? I have a 10 meter cable hanging between two bedrooms outside the window to my flatmate's room. all packets that pass on it are garbled for 1-1.5 seconds whenever the washing mach

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'll add two thoughts of mine. I use the exact cable Ira mentioned in his email (not same type, same cable. The secret is out - I am Ira's flat-mate), and have not seen the network outage described by Ira. I can think of three possible reasons: 1. I wasn't paying attention. 2. There wa

RE: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Iftach Hyams
>From our experience the main issue is whether one uses 10Mbps or fast Ethernet. The last one is very sensitive - sometime the auto negotiation fail but forcing 10Mbps works well. This e-mail message has been sent by Elbit Systems Ltd. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. Th

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
- Original Message - From: "Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:38 AM Subject: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage? > Can you express your view on the subject and/or give some online >

RE: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:45 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you express your view on the subject and/or give some online > pointers? I have a 10

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote about "How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?": > Suppose I will put a shielded cable and have it go to a wall outlet. > Having it tied to the electricity ground (green/yellow wire) is a major > pain, which is

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Orna Agmon
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > As far as I can tell the phone (Bezeq) lines that are going from each > apartment to the building's central phone box are unshielded even with > old building where Bezeq needs to have them path on the outer walls of > the building. Am I right about these ca

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Orna Agmon wrote: > as far as i know, the problem with phone lines is not the lightning > itself, because it is not very likely to hit your building. the problem > is with voltage changes which are caused due to lightning storms. like I said, the static electricity is the re

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-29 Thread Dani Arbel
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you express your view on the subject and/or give some online > pointers? > > In particular, I plan to put an Ethernet cable between 2 apartments > such that it will path in parallel to the cable TV outside of the > building. There fore, in addition t

Re: How important it is to a have shielded Ethernet cables for out of the building usage?

2002-01-30 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
OK, let me say my experience too, weird but real, some times ago in a storm, when a lightning hit 100 meters from my home, the computer hanged, and guess what? the modem was attached to the phone line, but my sound card went out, no physical signs of toasting ;-). On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Ben-Nes Mi