@erik_squires no hospital in the world is using this, it is 100% to fool audio hobbyists.
Hint: Change your Wi-Fi frequency to avoid interference with neighbors router
My friend was having annoying Internet problems such as start and stop, dropped signals, streaming pauses, skips, etc. In other words, a sporadic Wi-Fi connection on his Net-Gear router that sometimes works, and most times fails to work. Everything we tried failed to solve the issue (re-boot, etc.). And the strange thing is that the connection was working fine for many months and then suddenly stopped working.
After much research, and many phone calls, we discovered these kinds of difficulties could be caused by having another customers modem/router too close. We never thought of this.
All routers must operate their Wi-Fi network on one of several “channels” — different ranges of frequencies the wireless network can operate on. If you have multiple Wi-Fi networks near each other, and you probably do unless you do not live near anyone else, they should ideally be on different channels to reduce interference.
A very simple solution. We change his routers frequency from 11 to 6 and everything worked perfectly. I am not an expert on this topic but if you are having a sporadic Wi-Fi connection that sometimes works and, most times fails to work, you might want to investigate this simple solution.
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Or get a bit higher end that automatically analyze the RF environment and pick a channel that is free. @erik_squires auto is supposed to mean that it picks the channel with the cleanest RF, however, you are correct, lower end just somewhat randomize the channel selection |
@erik_squires higher end consumer, including some of the mesh ones, and enterprise grade continuously monitor the environment and switch channels as needed. |
@erik_squires neither TP or Asus are high end brands. you need to look at the higher end of brands that play in the small to medium size business side of things to get quality RF monitoring. or go enterprise grade with juniper, extreme, or my least favorite, Cisco. as for switches and Ethernet, never heard of medical grade Ethernet, and I have overseen network transformation projects for the largest hospital systems in the world, so that is just snake oil.
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@carlsbad what is your budget? If you can swing it, my personal preference is extreme networks. You can probably get away with 2 access points, depending what your are trying to cover. I have three, one on my second floor toward the backyard, one on the lower level toward the front yard, and one in my garage. Around 2000 sq Ft townhouse with detached garage and about 40 ft from backyard door to garage. My setup covers the the curb in front of the house to a bit down the alley behind my garage. |
@erik_squires to put it in simpler terms, what you are talking about is like saying your TV is vegan, sure, it is true, but who cares, you don’t eat TVs. |
@erik_squires you have not read the standard, so let me educate you: it is a standard for medical devices and how to protect them from spikes in electro magnetic radiation. so, there you go. You hopefully have 0 medical devices at home, but without a doubt you have 0 medical devices in your audio setup. Like I said, it is just to fool people, clearly you fell for it. |
@erik_squires you are applying a standard to something completely unrelated, like vegan TVs. lightning surges mainly come through the electrical grid, and can for sure move into your home network if you are not protecting your switches from the grid. but directly entering into your network isn’t likely unless your house is directly hit. what the standard protects against is EM surges or interference, which primarily is related to power supplies. either way, not worth my time. The one topic I know more than anyone on this forum is networking. But people don’t listen and want to apply audio terms to networking, and that’s just not how networking works. |