Re: [SLUG] DSL & Telephone Lines

From: Richard Smoot (rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2006 - 23:07:38 EDT


On Monday 17 July 2006 21:20, SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> What a pain doing email in a browser.
>
> To start I moved so I no longer live in the old location ie Tampa.
>
> I have I think dial up if I can make the phone system work. The issue of
> making the phone system work has little to do with the phone system and
> more to do with the big stack of boxes in front of it but that is another
> story. One issue is that I must run a new phone line and that brings up a
> interesting question.
>
> Comming from Maw Bell, not a Verison system but an old Maw Bell system, the
> two conductor black cable from the telephone pole connects to the side of
> the house, enters a lightning errestor, and then passes into the basement
> where it goes to a junction box.
>
> Is there any particular type of wire one must use on the line side feeding
> to the wall connector that then passes to the eathernet ? I know on the out
> side of the eathernet modem one needs to use cat 5 but since I am refering
> to the hardwiring on the input side of the modem not to the output side
> which uses cat 5 what does one use?
>
> Frank
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Did MAW Bell give you a self install DSL Modem package?
Normally there is a filter to separate the DSL signal from regular
phone stuff ans then to the DSL Modem with more or less regular
phone cable. Then your ethernet comes from the DSL Modem to your
computer or your router.

                 Richard Smoot
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