Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Robert M. Hamer" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Network Interface Message-ID: <9678@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Jul 90 20:08:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 479, Message 6 of 14 First, I need to state that I am in Richmond, VA, which is C & P - land, which is part of Bell Atlantic Land. I suspect this differs from telco to telco. I recently got a second line installed. The house is thirty years old; we moved in a year ago. When we moved in, we had one line installed. When they installed it, they also put in a Network Interfact box, as previous service had been installed in 1960 before there were NI. In my previous house, the NI had a modular socket I could plug my modular plug into, to test the circut exclusive of the inside wiring. (This was also C&P land.) This NI doesn't. Anyone have any guesses why? It would be useful to be able to test the new line before I hook it up so if I screw up the hookup, I know what I have done. I will probably have to get an old phone, strip back the modular cord, and get some alligator clips.