Question for Simon in Suffolk

Hi Bart,

All my internet, NAS and computer stuff is in another room and we installed another cat5e cable to the lounge yesterday, we already have one for the HDX. I'm sure all will be well. It is when you don't understand the technicalities of something that you start to worry.

Cheers

Bill

Endlessness, sorry mised you post, it's a Cisco 870.

Simon

.... Bill said he had a Cisco 800 router..( 800 is a series of edge router). But it transpires Bill has a linksys consumer grade router.. Huge difference in capability...  Bill ignore my earlier comments, it will all be plug and play with a Linksys as they're designed for consumers, not commercial/industrial applications.

Caftan, no my ISP doesn't give out Cisco 870s for broadband. :-) be nice if they did.. They are more usually used for CoS MPLS ADSL tails on corporate WANs. I also use as my  primary router for my internal subnets.

Simon

Hi Simon,

Apologies for confusing the issue, thanks again for all your input.

Cheers

Bill

Hi all,

Collected my NDS yesterday having taken 4 and a half weeks but worth the wait, even from cold. Simon you were quite correct it was simply plug and play so thanks again for your input. I was even successful in attaching the RJ45 plugs to the CAT5e cable so that in itself was quite an acheivement, for me anyway!

Cheers lots

Bill

I justed tried clamping a ferrite clamp on the belden cat7a cable that I am using, but the sound turn up to be very weird. The sound shifted to the high frequencies and sound edgy. Did I do anything wrongly?

Bizarre, something sounds awry somewhere. Plug a regular Cat 5e lead and listen.

The ferrite clamp impedes RF current either common mode or travelling through a coax shield. If it makes a dramatic change it sounds like you have an RFI issue somewhere which the clamp has brought to your attention.

What is the earthing arrangement of your Ethernet patch lead.. And how does it couple to your switch... ? You might be better off with a regular Cat 5e or Cat6a lead if you can't isolate.

Simon

hi simon, something has happen all my box sets that used to been seen as separate albums now show as one album with all the tracks numbered to a single list of tracks.this is happens when I open with alum/artist.  if I go into folders/ filename in advanced search every thing is ok   use asset/db power  thank you

Hi, strange that it has just happened. From memory in Asset advanced settings there is an option to seperates albums out or combine in the advanced setting. There is also the ability to get Asset to put a number  after the  album title to show the disc in the box set.

Finally dbpoweramp ripper add a meta value of which disc in the box set the track belongs to. Asset uses this to determine the disc is in box set.

Those are the areas I would check to see if they have changed or been modified.

Simon

Not sure about the earthing arrangement. But when I test the resistance between the two metal plugs using a multimeter, the resstance is zero. 

Hi, I was referring to how the earth is handled on the switch etc. how did using a regular cat 5e cable go?