Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: wales@cs.ucla.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Best Choice For Multi-line Home Phone Wiring? Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 89 19:18:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Rich Wales Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 273, message 3 of 8 What is the "best" choice these days for multi-line phone wiring in a home? For best isolation between lines (especially if, say, one or more lines were being used for data), I would assume twisted-pair cable (anywhere from 2 to 25 pairs) would be ideal. But is it actually used? If not, is this because it's just too expensive? Or do the (possibly outdated) electrical codes in various places prohibit it? If some kind of twisted-pair cable is OK for residential phone wiring, how difficult/expensive would it typically be to retrofit such stuff into an existing house? At the moment, I'm thinking very hypothetically (not owning my own home yet). I'm thinking into the future, though, and want to have some idea of what kinds of obstacles (physical, phone-company, electrical-code) I would be up against. Responses from anywhere in the US or Canada welcomed and encouraged. -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales "K-9, I think we're going to find out what it's like to be a cricket ball."