Wireless router

[yello]

I read the odd newspaper story about ex-pat brits leaving France due their GBP sterling incomes no longer providing a good EUR income. Do you see any of that, or are the numbers too small to make an impact on the size of the anglo-french community?

According to the English language newspaper here, the number of returns to the UK is being much overstated in the UK press. In fact, there are apparently no more leaving now than there has been previously, and for the same reasons; home sick or no job no money - a dream not thought through.

Yes, the sterling rate is hitting the pensioners hard but not sufficiently to send them back. Besides, they realise it'd be tough in the UK too!

 

[Piemaster]

Agreed. Cheaper too!

Isn't there around a 100m limit on cable?

In theory yes.In practice I know of installations that are longer than that and have potentially lots of electrical interference that operate without problems. Cable quality probably counts for some of it.

I did have problems with this laptop at home losing wifi connections to a netgear router until recently. The solution was unintentional - had no idea it would make any difference - and quite radical. I installed Ubuntu. Never dropped a connection since.

 

[yello]

In theory yes.In practice I know of installations that are longer than that and have potentially lots of electrical interference that operate without problems. Cable quality probably counts for some of it.

Thanks for that. I've already run another cable housing for the ethernet cable, to keep it separate from the electrics, as the sparky said there could be interference. If the 100m limit is only theoretical, I'm slightly more optimistic about getting a workable wired connection.

 

[Piemaster]

If you do have problems with the distance could you fit a hub/router/signal booster in the middle somewhere? I'd still give it a try and see what happens first though.
Installations I know of are ships with 440V power generation and some large power requirements. There is physical separation as much as possible but not not complete isolation. That said the newer boats are now being built with fibre optics for critical parts of the plant.

 

[Carwash]

Thanks for that. I've already run another cable housing for the ethernet cable, to keep it separate from the electrics, as the sparky said there could be interference.

You can get shielded CAT5e... but a separate route sounds safer!

 

[Piemaster]

UTP = Unshielded Twisted Pair
FTP = Fully-shielded Twisted Pair = expensive