Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Inside House Wiring Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 88 01:07:57 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 180, message 3 In article ucla-an!denwa!jimmy@vector.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) writes: |In article , Robert Gutierrez writes: |> That I find hard to believe. As far as I know, most apartment bldgs are |> are prewired with 12 or 25 pair multiconductor. | |This was true back in the good old days when the local telco did the |pre-wire. Unfortunately, it is now up to the builder to provide the |telephone wiring in the building. And since most builders just see |this as one more expense, [ -deleted- ] | |I don't know what we can do about this problem. I find it increasingly |difficult to locate an apartment with decent wiring. ANY building |built within the last five years is out of the question. Most of these |have two pairs and no crawl space or other way to run anything more. | |I hope it comes back to haunt them (the builders) when more people like |me won't rent their apartments because of a lack of wiring. Maybe we need something akin to the National Electric Code, which would give individual states guidance in what to require in local codes. This may be difficult or impossible in the current political climate, especially since this isn't a matter of safety. About the only other idea that pops into my head is to do what I did, i.e. buy your own house. Do other countries, e.g. Canada, have a similar problem? Chuck