Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ron@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Best Choice For Multi-line Home Phone Wiring? Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 89 22:00:11 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 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 277, message 6 of 11 Actually, 25 pair wiring to each room is going out of fashion in the commercial setting now. The new electronic key sets such as MERLIN require only 3 pairs. ISDN (and ISDN like) stuff get by with less. Running 4 pairs seems to be popular suggestion with the local phone company around here. I've got 25 pair cable in my house. It wasn't that expensive. I put it in myself. Sometime when we moved, the phone company managed to start billing something like $.30 a month. Generally this is a ripoff, but it was amusing when we had to have the phone dude out to figure out why all our lines died. He wasn't used to finding a back board full of 66-blocks in residential garages. Turned out that the cats had managed to piss in one of them. The guy left me some extra goodies when I offered to repunch down that cable rather than making him do it. Pretty good deal for .30/mo. -Ron