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Hello,
How common is silver foil backed plaster board? Almost every wall and ceiling of my house seems to use it and it generally causes havoc with any of the wireless systems that are all over the house. WLAN (especially 802.11a/b, g seems better), DECT phones and now the Central Heating. We recently had our central heating system modernised and as part of doing so we have the house zoned with Siemens RDJ10RF wireless thermostatic controllers for each zone. They are proving to be unreliable. Speaking to Siemens they seem to imply that foil backed plaster board was unheard of, and that I cant expect their system to work in such a house. But then again kingspan insulation etc is also foil backed and I guess that is increasingly common? Regards Fergus. |
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![]() "Fergus McMenemie" wrote in message ... Hello, How common is silver foil backed plaster board? Almost every wall and ceiling of my house seems to use it and it generally causes havoc with any of the wireless systems that are all over the house. WLAN (especially 802.11a/b, g seems better), DECT phones and now the Central Heating. We recently had our central heating system modernised and as part of doing so we have the house zoned with Siemens RDJ10RF wireless thermostatic controllers for each zone. They are proving to be unreliable. Speaking to Siemens they seem to imply that foil backed plaster board was unheard of, and that I cant expect their system to work in such a house. But then again kingspan insulation etc is also foil backed and I guess that is increasingly common? Regards Fergus. Why don't you move to home plugs? |
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"Fergus McMenemie" wrote in message ... Hello, How common is silver foil backed plaster board? Almost every wall and ceiling of my house seems to use it and it generally causes havoc with any of the wireless systems that are all over the house. WLAN (especially 802.11a/b, g seems better), DECT phones and now the Central Heating. We recently had our central heating system modernised and as part of doing so we have the house zoned with Siemens RDJ10RF wireless thermostatic controllers for each zone. They are proving to be unreliable. Speaking to Siemens they seem to imply that foil backed plaster board was unheard of, and that I cant expect their system to work in such a house. But then again kingspan insulation etc is also foil backed and I guess that is increasingly common? Regards Fergus. Why don't you move to home plugs? Indeed. The short answer is that foiled up houses are increasingly common, and WiFi is a bunch of crap mostly. I have occasional issues with a radio stat as well. Just 20 meters via brick walls and plain stud.. |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:06:37 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
TBH, I personally would tend to avoid wireless for things like heating controls. If you do use them (particularly for things like frost protection when you're away on holiday), make sure you fit new batteries before you go. The old ones may well stop working as the temperature falls, just when you need them most. Though even wired progstats generally(?*) use batteries too. * certainly the few I've played with do - anyone know of progstats that don't? -- John Stumbles -- http://yaph.co.uk If we'd known how much fun grandchildren are we'd have had them first |
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if the wireless router is in a room with foil backed plasterboard..........
will it work in that room? url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/1391140779.aspx |
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Alistair Robert Harley wrote:
if the wireless router is in a room with foil backed plasterboard.......... will it work in that room? url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/1391140779.aspx yes, but not to stations outside it, is my experience. |
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In article , "The Natural Philosopher"
wrote: Alistair Robert Harley wrote: if the wireless router is in a room with foil backed plasterboard.......... will it work in that room? yes, but not to stations outside it, is my experience. Agreed - unless the signal can get in through the door, window, floor or ceiling. The PC in another room to the wireless source is often found to work well only in certain places and when people weren't walking about. (standing waves?). You could use a powerline wireless access point in the room, such as: www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-av-pew.htm - but be careful of the amateur radio brigade complaining about powerline networking interference... :-) My preference would be to install a wired system, as I've done a few times in a similarly constructed houses. The plasterboard walls over insulated cavities make for a very easy installation, using a Bosch PMF 180E and Maplin N86CU or equivalent cable draw rods. -- John W I you want to mail me, replace the obvious with co.uk twice |
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