Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Lucy Diamond said:
It's quick. I don't know off hand. I'm at work and I haven't dealt with it in a couple of days.

Just off the cuff, right here I'd say roughly 16th notes if that helps at all.
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Some kind of electric motor, e.g. in a fridge compressor, is a possible source.

Did you think about what I said before? If it goes away when you touch the strings it is working as intended.
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Lucy Diamond said:
It's quick. I don't know off hand. I'm at work and I haven't dealt with it in a couple of days.

Just off the cuff, right here I'd say roughly 16th notes if that helps at all.
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lol ... that's like saying "it's the same size as a dog." :)

Constant rate ticking is definitely not wifi, or any digital signal. Digital RFI almost always has that morse-code-like random sounding pattern.

Possible suspects:

- something with a motor (could be anything from a fan to a DVD player, but generally the bigger the motor, the more noise)
- something with a big, noisy power transformer
- something broken that's shorting out and creating a spark gap
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

ratherdashing said:
lol ... that's like saying "it's the same size as a dog." :)

Constant rate ticking is definitely not wifi, or any digital signal. Digital RFI almost always has that morse-code-like random sounding pattern.

Possible suspects:

- something with a motor (could be anything from a fan to a DVD player, but generally the bigger the motor, the more noise)
- something with a big, noisy power transformer
- something broken that's shorting out and creating a spark gap
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You forgot gnomes. With their little pickaxes.

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Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

I've dealt with the exact same thing before.....the ticking every 15 seconds and loud hum, especially when using a pedalboard. I want to say it's a ground loop, but everything is connected normally. Some houses and apartments just suffer from weird anomalies, and that's why this thread is interesting.

I'm waiting to get a clear solution for how to fix it. It's either improving the ground, grounding every socket in the house on to a common ground, getting noisy lights off the circuit, or increasing the value of the breakers.

There's got to be a workable solution, because this is a common problem.

That 90's Guy.......you're a commercial electrician.....got any advise?
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Gearjoneser said:
I've dealt with the exact same thing before.....the ticking every 15 seconds and loud hum, especially when using a pedalboard. I want to say it's a ground loop, but everything is connected normally. Some houses and apartments just suffer from weird anomalies, and that's why this thread is interesting.

I'm waiting to get a clear solution for how to fix it. It's either improving the ground, grounding every socket in the house on to a common ground, getting noisy lights off the circuit, or increasing the value of the breakers.

There's got to be a workable solution, because this is a common problem.

That 90's Guy.......you're a commercial electrician.....got any advise?
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So what are you saying??

It's NOT Gnomes!?!

Dude...it's totally the Gnomes.



No but seriously Post #34 In this thread is where I started my research two days ago.
 
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Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Er, sorry to get personal but do you have a heart pacemaker? What about a plate in yo' head?
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

No one has asked the obvious... What happened two months ago? Figure that out and we will collectively solve your problem. There is a reason.

Wifi? I doubt that seriously. I've got a router in my amp shop, never an issue.

If you can't can't determine any event two months ago, then do this.

Take your amp to a friends house. See if it continues. If so, it's the amp/cable/guitar combination. If not, it's ambient conditions of your home somewhere.

My two cents on quick trouble shooting.
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

My cell phone will periodically reach out to the tower and I'll hear it of the phone is really close to the amp.
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Scott_F said:
No one has asked the obvious... What happened two months ago? Figure that out and we will collectively solve your problem. There is a reason.

Wifi? I doubt that seriously. I've got a router in my amp shop, never an issue.

If you can't can't determine any event two months ago, then do this.

Take your amp to a friends house. See if it continues. If so, it's the amp/cable/guitar combination. If not, it's ambient conditions of your home somewhere.

My two cents on quick trouble shooting.
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I thought the new neighbours moved in two months ago ... or did I read that wrong?
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Lucy Diamond said:
So what are you saying??

It's NOT Gnomes!?!

Dude...it's totally the Gnomes.



No but seriously Post #34 In this thread is where I started my research two days ago.
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You can say "it's the router" as many times as you want, but that doesn't make it any more possible. You may as well be saying it's gnomes. That would be equally likely.
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Time for that old house wring to give up the ghost maybe?
I was living with prehistrionic wiring for the last ten years where I live, then suddenly, without much warning, the whole circuit breaker box toasted. Cost 1200.00 for a new breaker box.
I could overload some circuits before that happened without the breakers tripping, but now the new breakers will trip pretty easily when Overloaded now .

One good thing is a I got a new main electric cable from the utility pole to the house scott free courtesy of our local electric company.
This should provide cleaner power.

I still have a lot of 60 cycle hum if i run stiff on the same circuit as my amps.

I don't know. The wiring inside the house is still prehistoric, but I have a new breaker box.veidently the wiring is pretty solidmstuff inside unless the rats have chewed on it alot or something, which some of my wiring does not work anymore, so thjat may be the case/

The ticking is something that finally went haywire on your circuit and just a coincidence about your new neighbor- just a guess.
I think your due for a new breaker box, and I hope the box is outside and NOT in your wall..that can be a real hazard.
 
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Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

MetalManiac said:
Time for that old house wring to give up the ghost maybe?
I was living with prehistrionic wiring for the last ten years where I live, then suddenly, without much warning, the whole circuit breaker box toasted. Cost 1200.00 for a new breaker box.
I could overload some circuits before that happened without the breakers tripping, but now the new breakers will trip pretty easily when Overloaded now .

One good thing is a I got a new main electric cable from the utility pole to the house scott free courtesy of our local electric company.
This should provide cleaner power.

I still have a lot of 60 cycle hum if i run stiff on the same circuit as my amps.

I don't know. The wiring inside the house is still prehistoric, but I have a new breaker box.veidently the wiring is pretty solidmstuff inside unless the rats have chewed on it alot or something, which some of my wiring does not work anymore, so thjat may be the case/

The ticking is something that finally went haywire on your circuit and just a coincidence about your new neighbor- just a guess.
I think your due for a new breaker box, and I hope the box is outside and NOT in your wall..that can be a real hazard.
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I've got friends in the Seattle are who have a house that still has live exposed wires running through their basement. Knob and Tube I think it's called? Anyway, it's not out of the ordinary for older houses to have systems with new coated line spliced directly into that sort of wiring. As long as the wire jacket is in place, it should function, but the shielding is negligible. If mice are in the house, they'll eat the wire jacketing. A common practice in wire making is to prewrap the wire then shove it into the jacket, sometimes using vegetable oil as a lubricant. It's funny; my friend had a 2005 Saturn Vue that had the wiring in the frame chewed on because of that. Totaled the car, actually. Now he drives a Subaru on my suggestion and hates it, but that's beside the point...

Here's a scenario. 3 months ago the house was fumigated/exterminated because of new renters moving in. Said verminous occupants decided to move to a new locale and started snacking on the wire in the wall 2 months ago.

Said vermin being gnomes, of course. Little pointy hats and a taste for old plastics.
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

I know in our church we get noise when the (way too high power old industrial style) heater switches on... It on different group entirely, yet the amounts of current it dumps onto the ground probably are so crazy it gets into the PA as noise (not extremelt loud, but when there is only talking it is annoying). So do you share a ground with your neighbours? And do they use some rediculous old stuff? That will be the problem then. If not... All I can say, get over the WiFi thing... It is crazy to even consider it to be te cause of trouble, unless you wire one of its outputs directly to your amps input which then amplifies it and makes crazy noises, otherwise just stop thinking about the router stuff...
 
Re: Neighbors Router Causing Noise.

Aaaaaaah, Last night equaled "billable hours" so I didn't get a crack at this issue.

Proceed. :D
 
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