Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Alec Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Crosstalk in Nontwisted Cable Message-ID: <12458@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 03:18:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 15 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 668, Message 8 of 9 For some reason, my house was wired with six pair nontwisted cable. When I got a second line and hooked it up to a second pair, the crosstalk was so bad as to make both lines unuseable. At the time I had one of those cheap phones that when the ringer is turned on and you pulse dial on that line it chirps. Well, from that phone (with it on hook!) you could listen to this side of the conversation on the *OTHER* line! I ended up running quad (I had some) separately for the second line. -*- Alec -*- PCHROMCZ@drunivac.bitnet PCHROMCZ@drunivac.drew.edu ...!rutgers!njin!drew!drunivac!PCHROMCZ