tek-monkey
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If you have a gas fire, how much heat goes up a chimney? Could you drop a network cable down it, or would it just melt?
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To be honest, the efficiency of them has never been that great but if you have a newer sort of fire I would expect it to be alot better. Either way I wouldn't have thought that your cat5 cable would be exposed to enough heat to do damage IMOtek-monkey said:How much heat actually goes up a chimney then? If its a lot, doesn't that mean the gas fire is crap?
It would be obvious the answer you'd get no doubt, as they would legally need to advise you not to do it to eliminate themselves from any risk of blame. In reality it might be perfectly safe to do, but they're gonna tell you it's hellishly dangerous in any case I'd have imagined.sofa said:If you try it out I would suggest giving the fire brigade a bell first.
Good thinkingwmrcomputers said:Put one of them room thermometers that stores the highest temperatures up in there somewhere tek... put the fire on full whack for a couple of hours and when you remove the thermometer later you'll see for yourself..... if it hasn't melted!!
And if you have a ham radio user nearby heaven help them, they cause no end of interference to short wave radiotek-monkey said:I've got powerline adapters, they don't work well in my house
No reason for them not to work well UNLESS somebody else uses similar units on the same phase of mains wiring as you.tek-monkey said:I've got powerline adapters, they don't work well in my house
Have you gone wireless N spec though?? Made hell of a difference to us and there are several connections in use at once here without a glitchtek-monkey said:I am, but wired works so much better. If I could hard wire the main PCs and just leave a few on wireless it'd help, we already have 3 PCs on the wireless and once 2 stream it gets a bit sketchy.