Not sure if this is the right place to post this its not really meaningless, just a bit strange and some of you folks are smart 'switched on' people who might have wide enough experiences of teh world and a good enough understanding of physics to offer some explanation - so here goes:
Ok this is going to sound a little crazy!:
I recently decided that I *needed* my PS3 to be cabled into my LAN instead of using the unreliable WiFi connection. Unfortunately in order to do this I needed to magically create 2 ethernet ports at the end of the 1 cable (currently used by my HTPC).
I had an old spare Dlink624 router in the cupboard, so pulled it out and used it as a switch so that my living room now has 1 cable coming in, the Dlink as a switch and both HTPC and PS3 connected to it. To my surprise and delight it worked off the bat and my PS3 gaming connectivity improved accordingly (yay! smile.gif )
... A littlewhile later though a new problem has surfaced. I noticed that my HTPC, previously reliable on all channels lost reception of one particular channel - Couldnt get a lock at all. I figured I must've knocked some of the very dodgy antenna cabling whilst moving things around, so tidied up a bit and looked again - still no Ch7....
In a moment of madness, I unplugged the DLink and hey presto my Ch7 reception returned ...
I've checked the Dlinks configuration and the WiFi part appears to be disabled and it has no RF antenna plugged in.
Any ideas what could be doing this? and how I can rectify it? Should I plug the DLink into a seperate power board? Should I try and move it as far away as I can from the HTPC, indoor antenna and delicate DTV tuner
cards? Should I wrap the damn thing in foil to try and shield it?
Anyone got good enough physics/engineering knowledge to tell me if 'standard domestic' WiFi could be interfering with VHF broadcasts?