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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Help: My telco has mid and high frequency loss
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Date: 11 Jan 91 03:25:21 GMT
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| From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
| 
| >Thus, I'm going to get rid of the currently serially connected line
| >arrangement.  This should have been question 5: is this a sensible thing
| >to do?
| 
| For a modem line its best if there are no other extention lines
| connected to it at all.  Of course it may work quite well with
| three or four on it, but...

  But this is what I was talking about doing ...  Oh, I think see what
you're saying.  You're saying that if we have, say, two voice lines,
which I'll call line 1 and line 2, and one modem line, which I'll call
line 3, then, while I'll always hook those lines up to the same positions
in the various terminals in various rooms, I should only hook up those
lines to those terminals which I have a fair idea will be used.  Thus, I
would run line 1 (the house residential voice line) through most of the
house, line 2 (the office voice line) to the office, and line 3 (the
modem line) to the office.

  Since we're going to use a punchdown block and I'm going to leave
plenty of spare wire at the punchdown block to strip back and rewire when
necessary, this is a pretty reasonable scheme.  I wish there was a
junction box that I could use that I could hook everything up to and
would provide switches to [en|dis]able each line to each terminal.  I
think I'll hit the local telephone equipment contractors outpet tomorrow
to see what kinds of toys they have ...

Casey
office, the three bedrooms, the st

Do you mean not run the modem telephone line into any
room except where we're planning on using it?