Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: John_Richard_Bruni@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: In a Corner of our Bedroom Message-ID: Date: 24 Feb 91 23:25:03 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 157, Message 1 of 10 Pat and all, The title of this thread reminds me of something funny (as in 'odd'). I called Pac Bell recently to have the line installed which I am using at this very moment to communicate with Internet. They had trouble finding the demarc. The gal who came to hook it up asked if she could book the next day to do the job since time was running short. She was real nice so what the heck I said OK. The next morning she located the demarc in the crawl space access port located in my bedroom closet. I`m in a townhouse and there are five more units attached to my place. Amazingly enough, *ALL* the demarcs for the building are in MY bedroom. There is a 25 pair cable built out in the crawlspace ... actually it`s just a cable with 25 pairs. Each one has a `peanut' attached to it which the Pac Bell gal tells me is a terminator. If I were my neighbors I`d be real glad it`s me who owns this unit. I am strongly opposed to wiretaps of any kind so they`re safe with me. But what a mickey-mouse installation! I really want it out of here. Rocky (The Flying Squirrel) ROCKY@CUP.PORTAL.COM