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From: libove@lemans.det.dec.com (Jay Libove)
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Subject: Crosstalk on Two lines on One Four-Wire Cable
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 From article <8499@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net
(Dave Levenson):

> For two-line service, they should use a cable with two (or more)
> twisted pairs.  If they did, they would probably have connected one
> line to the blue-white pair and the other to the orange-white pair.
> If they did that, you shouldn't experience crosstalk, regardless of
> the connectors used.

Well, I have two phone lines - one voice, one data - on a four wire
typical phone line, and I experience crosstalk that I believe might
actually occasionally interfere with my data communications, and is
always annoying (to both parties) on the voice line.

Do I have any legal right to make the phone company come in and
correct a situation that they caused? They knew before doing the
second line "installation" (just plug in a two-jack plate and split
the wires, $75, on top of $40 'line charge' !!!) that the line was to
be used for data communication.


Thanks,

Jay Libove		libove@kamet.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corp	decwrl!"kamet::libove"