22-10-2014, 04:53 PM
in your house the main power comes in and is then most often split into seperate circuits (imagine a T peice in a pipe sort of thing)
basically if you run a more modern fuse box, you will likely run several seperate rings, most common is one for upstairs lights, one for upstairs plugs, downstairs lights, and plugs, and sometimes there is one for the shower, oven etc.
in each of these circuits, there is an RCD, and the RCDs tend to interfere somewhat with signals running through the wires and/or put a tiny bit of interferance in the line.
hence if you are connecting between plugs on the same ring its not a problem, but if you have to go through the board, you will go through 2 RCDs as you change ring mains (for example your modem is on the downstairs ring main, and your PC or server is on the upstairs one)
basically if you run a more modern fuse box, you will likely run several seperate rings, most common is one for upstairs lights, one for upstairs plugs, downstairs lights, and plugs, and sometimes there is one for the shower, oven etc.
in each of these circuits, there is an RCD, and the RCDs tend to interfere somewhat with signals running through the wires and/or put a tiny bit of interferance in the line.
hence if you are connecting between plugs on the same ring its not a problem, but if you have to go through the board, you will go through 2 RCDs as you change ring mains (for example your modem is on the downstairs ring main, and your PC or server is on the upstairs one)
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