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From: libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Libove)
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Subject: Re: Crosstalk on Two lines on One Four-Wire Cable
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Date: 19 Sep 90 06:11:04 GMT
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In article <11803@accuvax.nwu.edu> sherpa!rac@uunet.uu.net (Roger
Cornelius) writes:

>When I had my second line installed, I specifically requested a
>completely separate line coming off the pole because I had heard of
>problems like the above.  The phone company didn't seem to mind, and
>there was no additional charge either.  Some months later, someone
>pointed out that once my two lines connect to the pole, they're
>connected back to a single line -- with everyone else's in the
>neighborhood to boot.  Makes sense to me, but then I know next to
>nothing about phone systems.

Interesting. I was told that if I wanted not only the amazingly huge
and complex (put in a wall plate, yeah right, could've done it myself
EXCEPT that my apartment complex didn't want to let me f*** with THEIR
wires) but also wanted to actually make them do work and install
another whole wire, I'd pay for all of the time (well, at least I'd
have gotten a little more for my money) and equipment involved. Given
that the network interface box on the building was a good hundred or
more feet from where the wire would have to enter my apartment, I took
my chances on sharing the existing four-wire line for two phone lines,
rather than pay even more. Now I'm sorry about it, since I do get
crosstalk.

It just seem stupid that, now that we "own" the wires between the
network interface unit and our phones, the phone company gets off
providing unacceptable service just because that's typical. If I want
another phone line, I should get another phone _line_ - the standard
shouldn't be to mix and match signals in a known unclean electronic
fashion.


Jay Libove                         libove@libove.det.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!libove.det.dec.com!libove
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