Phone line static influencing DSL quality
Peter
plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 14 23:03:41 UTC 2005
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, James Knott wrote:
> Byron L. Sonne wrote:
>
>> For problematic devices that were causing interference (not just
>> 60/120Hz hum, though that was the most common), often times we'd swap in
>> a new power cable that had the ground lifted (i.e. we did it on the
>> cheap and just sawed the grounding prong off!). Doing that solved more
>> problems than I thought it should, so I'd be interested to know if that
>> helps out your situation.
>
> That is a violation of electrical codes and sufficient to void your fire
> insurance, not to mention potentially lethal. Don't *EVER* do that!!!
Agree. Investing into audio transformers is much better.
Peter
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