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    Coax Splitter in series virginmedia for flats

    This is not necessarily as bad as some people have suggested. Cable internet works by having a single coaxial cable running down the street supplying quite a few houses, with splitters in the road. The cable itself probably supports something like 1.8Gbps with that shared amongst the houses on...
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    UK Emergency lighting regs

    Sounds to me like several things may be being confused: Fire exit door - a means to escape the building when there is a fire. Needs appropriate signage, lighting and door handles to help people exit in a hurry. I would have thought the rules don't care if the door is open or not when there is...
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    What does the main fuse protect?

    I'm no electrician, but my here is my take. The key point here is that the regulations and design calculations work on the basis that cables can have too much current through them either due to a) too many devices/too high load being applied, or b) a fault in the cable itself. Cable faults are...
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    About data point . Can this work

    Each socket needs it's own cable that eventually goes back to a network switch (such as the one built into most home broadband routers). So adding new sockets means pulling new cables. The cheaper/easier route to add more ports for most domestic situations is to just get a cheap 5 port gigabit...
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    UK What is the IP rating for this🙈

    I would say at least IP10 Possibly IP20 if slicing your finger on the razor sharp edges of the mashed up casing counts as being protected against finger sized objects 😉
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    How to get phone signal and internet in basement

    A few ideas: Have a look to see if you can see any other WiFi networks on your phone. It would be pretty unusual for a building to have no phone line at all, so if you just don't have one in your flat perhaps it is a converted building and there is a phone line to one of your neighbours. Talk...
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    Unimaginable amount of electrical noise after plugging PC Power Supply

    When you say that you have 2000mV of electrical noise, how are you measuring that and what is that voltage between? Might also be useful to know which country you are in as 120v split phase is rather American, but you mention you need parts in Europe in the end. With the words "fire " "black...
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    Power over Ethernet

    My experience is that these can also be a bit finicky about what else is plugged in nearby. For example, if I used one in the same double socket as my UPS was plugged in, performance was dreadful. Move one of them over to the other side of the room (same circuit) and it was much better. You...
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    Capturing wifi traffic for fault diagnosis / usb pcap ?

    Not your typical electrician's questions buy here you go: USB Pcap is about capturing and inspecting USB bus traffic rather than anything to do with WiFi. The normal packet capture facilities in wireshark will work just as well with many USB WiFi adapters as those connected via other buses...
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    Been a subby for a company for nearly 10 years and been asked to do this

    There is an online tool you can use to determine your IR35 status. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax Note that the rules about who makes the determination are changing in April. Before then it was the contractor's responsibility, but after that (for large companies)...
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