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- From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: HELP! problems with 2-line phones
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.235614.1@camb.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:56:14 EDT
- References: <1992Dec18.182626.4665@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <1992Dec22.003824.2898@combdyn.com> <1992Dec22.210253.15328@ksmith.uucp>
- Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec22.003824.2898@combdyn.com> lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence Chen) writes:
- >not dropped when the other line rings. I have tried each phone
- >individually and they all seem to cause line noise on the other line
- >(line2) when line1 rings. These phones are essential and I was
- >wondering if there was some way to suppress this overlapping effect.
-
- The already suggested switches or the Proctor or Melco automatic modules
- will solve any problems with the same line being picked up elsewhere,
- and may solve your crosstalk problem between lines if they isolate
- most of the offending wiring in the building from the line the modem is on.
-
- Your real problem is probably that you have lots of QUAD (red,green,yellow,
- black) wire that is NOT 2 seperate twisted pairs. If you replace it with
- REAL twisted pair wiring (and while you are at it run 4 pair - it doesn't cost
- that much more), you will find that the crosstalk disappears. You can have all
- the phone lines you want in the same cable, but they better be on individual
- twisted pairs. Use telephone wire, NOT something that happes to be 'twisted'.
-
- If you plan to also run ethernet (10Base-T) over it, I would run them in a
- seperate sheath. Once you are pulling one 4 pair cable, hauling a second
- in at the same time is easy. Many run 10Base-T in the same cable with their
- phones and have no problems.
-