My vaccum and my internet

echolocation

Ok seriously, this has been happenning for the past year and a half now, everytime the vaccuum cleaner is turned on in my house, my internet is disconnected, I'm extremely baffled as to this happens considering that I'm not even using wireless.

As far as I know, no phone lines or cable lines even cross any vaccuum tubes or whatchagizmits, so I can't even fathom, nor pull out of my ass some idea as to how this is happenning.

Does anyone know and have a solution for me that does not consist of me breaking apart my house?

Beautiful, now I have to wait to be reconnected because someone just turned on the vaccuum AGAIN.

matt has a problem

When the vacuum comes on, do the lights dim slightly/flicker? The "on" pull from the motor could be causing just enough of a dip in power to make your router/modem to reset.

echolocation

Every so often, perhaps every ten times, the lights will momentarily dim but then go back, however the modem doesn't reset, it stays on, and the little green "internet" button is still lit up, I just can't go on the internet until the vaccuum cleaner is off.

bowen

Explain to me how your home is wired.

echolocation

I don't know.

I was two when it was built, I asked my father about the vaccuum cleaner and phone lines as well as cable lines and he said what I already repeated in the OP. Though I suppose he could've been mistaken...

And yes, I don't have my own home I'm 18, so I can't exactly own one <.<

bowen

Are the ethernet in jacks or hand run along walls and through floors and stuff?

echolocation

Jacks. Assuming you mean those things on the wall that you plug the whatchamacallit into. o.O

bowen

Probably [strike]crosstalk[/strike] interference with older ethernet cable being next to electrical outlets. I'm impressed that a house that old has ethernet jacks installed for you to plug routers and shit into.

echolocation

We've done some renovations.

bowen

That's awesome, by the way. Plug a blender in and try that too. Probably spike electrical causes the necessary interference.

Dman

I suggest you make vacuuming the house your new hobby, if there is nothing that needs to be vacuumed while you're trying to use the internet your problem is solved.

Alternatively, you could call your provider and beg them to run a new cable via a different path from your computer/modem to wherever it leaves your house. Often these cables are in segments so you might even be able to do this yourself, but either way you might end up with ugly cables running around the edges of your floor.

SammyF

Electricity flow creates an electromagnetic field radiating out perpendicular to the flow of electrons-- if the CAT-5 runs parallel along the electrical wiring in your house, when power is flowing through the appropriate line, it interferes with the flow of electrons along the CAT-5. New houses tend to keep the CAT-5 and wiring running far enough apart to prevent this; when they must intersect, they have to intersect at right angles.

My guess is that you dropped the CAT-5 along a powerline instead of a phone line?

EDIT: Oh hey I forgot to suggest a solution.

My guess is that the wiring interfering with your CAT-5 is wiring you don't use often -- people don't unplug their televisions to use their vaccuums, they plug into the unused electrical outlet. Experiment with different electrical outlets; find out if there are outlets that you can use the vaccuum with that don't cause interference with the internet. I suggest starting with outlets that already have a higher-voltage/higher amperage applicance plugged into them.