Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!chip From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I need a second line... Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 88 16:07:29 GMT Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 45 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu (TELECOM Digest Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 176, message 4 In Telecom Digest #157 sultra!dtynan@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Der Tynan) writes: }I am trying to get my modem @ home to talk to the outside world. I am }currently time-multiplexing it, so that the modem can use the line at }night. I would like to have a separate line for the modem. I called }Pacific Bell (the local phone company), expecting a simple order request. }It turns out that the apartment building is not wired for two lines (how }short-sighted can you get!). PacBell will put in a second line, if I want. }There are two reasons why this is unacceptable. First, they want $45 for }the first fifteen minutes, and (I think) $12 for every 15 minutes after }that (make a rough guess how long it takes :-) Second, I don't see that }I should foot the bill for this apartment to have two lines. As an option, }I know I can move, but would like a better reason than that. Well, that's ok, because summer before last, I had a second line installed in my apartment (for my junior year at UCSB), and it cost me something like $100 to have the guy come out and put it in. This included 15 minutes for him to install the jack in my room, since the apartment didn't have four conductor wire. Then, this past summer, I moved again, and wanted to drag my line with me. This time, we had four conductor wire, so all they had to do was bring the line up to the house, but it still cost about $75 or some- thing like that. Good old GTE! They said if he came inside it would cost, so I made it clear to him that he was to connect it outside the house to the extra two wires, and I checked it inside as soon as he did, and it worked. }My question is, does anyone know of a way of solving this? It seems to }me, that if the phone line is ~5K bandwidth, and the actual line to the }exchange is maybe 10K, then I *should* be able to multiplex the line - }PacBell said no. Any comments? I'm sure this is a common problem, but I've }not seen anything on it recently. I've heard of people having multiplexors outside the house to get two lines in cases where the wire to the phone company is underground or something like that where they can't drag another one from the pole. However, I've also been warned to avoid it if possible. Just let PacBell bring another line in from the pole and be glad you aren't getting ripped off by GTE instead of PacBell! - ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" - ----- Internet: steve@ivucsb.UUCP; lemke@apple.COM AppleLink: LEMKE - ----- uucp: pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 - ----- alt.uucp: {decwrl!}sun!apple!lemke GEnie: S.Lemke - ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"