Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: In a Corner of our Bedroom Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 03:32:18 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: Thinkage Ltd. Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 163, Message 8 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu In article John_Richard_Bruni@cup.portal.com writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 157, Message 1 of 10 > 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 ... In my highrise apartment bldg (and I suspect this could be common wiring practice for highrise buildings) I live in unit #1004. Behind one of the RJ-14 plates on a common supporting wall is a 25-pair cable drop. Bascially all the "-04" units can tap each other. And it would be true for any vertical-row of units. Simply dropping cables down walls like that I suspect is the, er, "efficient" way of doing the job... Then of course out on the lawn beside my building is the Bell green-box (about four or five feet wide, three or so feet tall, ten or so inches thick, on a cement pad) with the millions of connections for the three highrises , one lowrise, and one strip-mall (with bank :-) in the immediate vicinity. The padlock on it is a joke. Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [43.47N 80.52W] kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.1] watmath!kgdykes [Moderator's Note: This is another example of how a cable run with many pairs is multipled. There is some absolute number of pairs available from the phone exchange to the apartment complex. The cable terminates in the outside box mentioned, and from there the wires can be swapped back and forth. PAT]