On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:52, Vik Olliver wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:36, Stephen Cope wrote: > > http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2003/01/0115.html > > That's well within the isolation specifications of Ethernet. Indeed, providing you trust the chap in who knows where that designed it, and the other chaps who knows where else that manufactured the isolating transformer and board. In the particular case linked above, the problem came to light as I was feeding audio from a computer plugged into socket #1 to an amp plugged into socket #2. 120VAC is enough to give you quite a reasonable tingle. I must admin I am placing a bit of trust in a couple of cards at the moment; there's a network cable in a shallow trench between my place and my neighbors - so far, no problems, and it's only about a 30m run. LAN-speed WolfET. This way, I can't blame connection speed for the fact that I seriously suck at it :-) Other options I looked at were free-space optical (FSO) and wireless, but decided to risk it. If I was going much further, I'd definitely look at something with better isolation. FYI all: I still consider this thread to be reasonably on-topic, as it (a) related to networking computers together, and (b) is something done by many here. If we start getting down and dirty with electronic engineering guff then perhaps it'll be time for us to shut up :-) Regards, Nic. -- Nic Bellamy <nic@bellamy.co.nz> Bellamy Consulting (NZ) Limited. +64-6-377-4957 Mobile: +64-21-251-8954 Internet Software & Security Consulting -- http://www.bellamy.co.nz/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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