Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU!SPGDCM From: SPGDCM@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: inside wiring Message-ID: <8705132053.AA12164@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 13-May-87 16:52:34 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.8705132053.AA12164 Posted: Wed May 13 16:52:34 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 07:42:39 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 54 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu MSG:FROM: SPGDCM --UCBCMSA TO: NETWORK --NETWORK 05/13/87 13:52:32 To: NETWORK --NETWORK Network Address From: Doug Mosher Title: MVS/Tandem Systems Manager (415)642-5823 Office: Evans 257, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Subject: inside wiring To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu Regarding the inquiry on how to home-wire: If you have standard single-party home lines, and standard single-line home phones, the wiring itself is pure simplicity: two wires from the telco feed in parallel to each outlet. Buy outlets and wires in local grocery store. Buy a polarity red-green light from radio shack and reverse the two wires if you get a red light. Don't do it at all if it involves: two or more party lines; pay phones; public use; weird equipment; homemade things plugged into power lines or other appliances (unless those things are themselves unmodified and FCC registered). Get into more work if you want multiple lines, fancy equipment, intercom, whatever. Make sure you can disconnect your house from telco, leaving a single standard modular outlet with proper polarity, if you think the telco service is broke. I do this with two modular wall outlets and a short modular jumper. Books are available in radio shacks and electronics stores, probably bookstores too. They just tell how; it seems you can ignore a lot of spooky and unelucidated threats regarding tariffs and whatever if you avoid the restrictions listed above. The REAL problem is not the circuitry or tariffs, its the utmost magic ingenuity required to run the little wires from point x to y in your house. Depending on the situation this runs from easy and obvious, to imaginative, to very ugly. Most classic telco installers had the tools and knowledge to do this pretty easily. Nowadays you can use "electricians" but they until now are used to running ROMEX fat wires; even harder; but they may not yet be used to the tricks possible with skinny wires. They have a tendency to want to remove wallboards (you plaster and repaint afterward.) Compare costs for each if possible. If you are doing new construction, major remodelling, or a big job, consider running: at least 3 pairs, maybe 6 or 12 pair cable; and maybe standard tv coax. Use the coax for cable tv, remote vcr hookups, and one leg of the future. Use the other pairs for additional telco lines, home security, intercoms, stereo audio, and the other leg of the future. Madmen would suggest you also run a fiber optic cable. First of all they're madmen; second of all the TYPE of fiber will change before you'd ever use it. Thanks, Doug >Fthoube hbe hbo