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From: adchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Dunyeh Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: network basics...
Summary: what's going on?
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Date: 23 Jun 91 07:26:42 GMT
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The other day, my roommates and I wired up our very own 3-mac network in
our room using TOPS TeleConnectors (DIN-8). (ooh ahh 8-)  Anyway, my
mac, which the other two are daisy chained from, is also plugged into
our phone jack. So in addition to having our macs networked, we have 
phonelines split off of the TOPS connectors.  We figured while we 
weren"t playing netgames, might as well have phones in each room too.

What we found out was, that the phones are active even if we have
net-active programs sending stuff from mac to mac.  Correct me if I'm
wrong anywhere... phonenet cables only require 2 wires, while the normal 
phone cables use 4 wires, 2 of which are power.  

Since both phone and appletalk work simultaneously over the same cables
is the signal being converted to analog form? so that in essence, the
voice and appletalk data are sent via different bandwidths? or if not,
what really goes on? 

Thanks for any answers. 

Curiously yours,
Tony Chen, adchen@phoenix.princeton.edu