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Post by Venturi on Aug 19, 2005 13:17:17 GMT -5
Ok, can someone explain to me why the modem in my computer drops the dialup connection when I turn on any of the burners on my electric stove? If I’m online and turn the stove on the modem immediately drops the connection and will not reconnect until the stove is turned off. The phone line for the computer and the computer are nowhere near the stove and the stove and computer are on totally different electrical circuits in the breaker box. The stove also has no noticeable effect on the telephone. What gives?  |
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Post by re-tired on Aug 19, 2005 20:22:32 GMT -5
Has to be a malfunction in your range/modem parallel interface protection grid not polarizing the capitulator diode. It's an easy fix , dont cook while on line. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by oldtimer5520 on Aug 19, 2005 23:50:45 GMT -5
Yea, What re-tired said |
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Post by Venturi on Aug 20, 2005 7:19:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip re-tired, I was all prepared to replace the quantum flux diode heat sink…..  |
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Post by re-tired on Aug 21, 2005 9:34:43 GMT -5
Actually i once had a similar prob. I was getting a/c ripple on my phone line. It drove my modem nuts . wiped out two in 6 months . I put a filter on phone line , so far so good. |
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Post by Venturi on Aug 23, 2005 10:23:27 GMT -5
I might look into that, the modem seems to have a mind of it’s at times even when the stove is off. Some days it just refuses to stay connected.
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Post by re-tired on Aug 23, 2005 11:26:24 GMT -5
THeres always broadband $$$$
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Post by way2old on Aug 23, 2005 13:45:15 GMT -5
Oh re-tired, now you are talking to me. I love the broadband. Have a cable modem and I would not give it up. We have a T-10 connection at work and it seems like dial-up compared to cable. ;D
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Post by re-tired on Aug 23, 2005 15:14:37 GMT -5
FASTEST FROG IN THE EAST ! NO WONDER YOU BEAT ME ON THE FORUMS. LOLOL
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Post by DanD on Aug 24, 2005 6:31:49 GMT -5
Hey Mike I was talking with a buddy of mine that works for Bell and mentioned the problem with the stove, he said it happens a lot.
What he has done is wrap foil tape around the phone lines that are running anywhere close to either the fuse panel or the hydro line to the stove. I guess the tape acts as a shield and stops voltages from being induced into the phone line.
Made sense to me, it would be like us running a spark plug wire over the top of a mass air sensor and watch it go nuts.
Dan.
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Post by Venturi on Aug 24, 2005 10:05:16 GMT -5
Hmm, that makes sense I just thought that 30 feet or so between the stove and the phone line would be enough distance to keep that from happening.
I may just run a separate shielded line from the computer room to the phone junction box outside. That’d be easier than trying to shield the existing line the computer is on now.
Thanks for the tip Dan, I’m glad I’m not the only one with stray stove electrons. LOL
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