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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: network basics...
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.140454.4888@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 91 14:04:54 GMT
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In article <11089@idunno.Princeton.EDU> adchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Dunyeh Chen) writes:
>
>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.  

You are wrong.  Normal phone cables require two wires, (Tip and Ring), the
inside wires on RJ-11 and RJ-14 jacks.  PhoneNet style connectors
require two wires, normally the next set of wires on the RJ-11 and RJ-14
jacks.  For instance, I have wired up a network using 6 conductor phone wire,2
for the voice phone line, 2 for the data phone line, and 2 for AppleTalk.
(I'm using dual-RJ11 (the standard modular jacks))
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