Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!HARVARDA.BITNET!NETWRK From: NETWRK@HARVARDA.BITNET (Steve Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: INFO-MODEMS Digest V90 #328 Message-ID: <9011232112.AA01416@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 Nov 90 04:50:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 Household wire from the old days before, what, 1970 or so is quite possibly not twisted. I don't think any twisting takes place except for individual pairs-- the big cables, your hundred- or five-hundred-pair cables are just clumps of individual pairs. The cancelling of inductance only works for circuits as in individual pairs. Not a real problem in the big cables. You are far more likely to run into tuning problems at the C.O. or ancient splices giving way in the face of storms and garbage. If you ever have the opportunity to watch a spice being opened, take it. Remember the quote about not wanting to watch laws or sausage being made?