Stewart B Lone on 1 Jun 2006 20:34:05 -0000 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Art Alexion wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 19:06, gyoza@comcast.net wrote: >> Does a typical phone cable have two pairs? Use one for VoIP and one for >> DSL. Just short one pair at the demark. > > AFAIR, on normal phone service, only 2 wires are needed for a single line, 4 > wires for multi-line phones. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Typically, Verizon delivers 2 pairs to each normal POTS line customer. Each pair is a separate "number". Even if the second pair is not used, it could be kind of chancy to short the pair. If the pair was ever active and the techs neglected to lift some strapping in their wire room, you might be shorting 48v DC.system:/media/hda Stewart -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEf2t2sY78jAlxCigRAvHkAKCu8piIaA6ML0BRXKX4yAEKmY0KcQCfYRpL GEeoz1skoHnQv+rkUmDe558= =TAC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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