[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:33 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Yan Seiner wrote:
>> During the summer the two schools across the street installed about
>> $500,000 of wifi and other hi-tech gear. They've taken over the  
>> entire
>> 802.11 spectrum and knocked my wifi network completely off-line  
>> during
>> school hours.
>>
> If it *is* the WiFi gear, the amplifiers may make matters worse unless
> they've got good input filtering.  You may be suffering a phenomenon
> known as "front-end overload," where a strong out-of-band signal  
> pushes
> enough power into the antenna to overwhelm the filtering in the tuner.
> 802.11 runs on 2.4 GHz, though, which is a long way from the 800 MHz
> range that holds UHF TV channels, making this somewhat unlikely.

Sorry I missed the beginning of this thread and I'm too lazy to look  
it up, but 802.11a might be your answer. Gear is cheap now,  
throughput is fast, and uses a different frequency.