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- From: merv@gpstwr.UUCP (Merv Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re^2: HELP! problems with 2-line phones
- Message-ID: <1021@gpstwr.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:20:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.182626.4665@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <1992Dec28.143202.20023@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Organization: Graham-Patten Sys., Inc., Grass Valley, CA
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- joel@writer.yorku.ca (Joel Atkin) writes:
-
- >Help! My supra v.32bis modem, which is billed as handling line noise
- >fairly well, drops the carrier every time my other line rings. I have
- >5 two line phones hooked up throughout my house on sockets I've wired
- >for two lines. When I remove all of the phones, presto!, carrier is
- >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.
-
- Some time ago this issue was covered in one of the many newsgroups I read.
- One possible explanation and fix (albeit a cumbersome one) is this:
- If your two lines to each RJ-14 jack are wired with common "QUAD" cable,
- that is, the cable with single red, green, black, and yellow wires, you
- have a good chance of having crosstalk between the two lines.
- Common QUAD cable twists all four wires together while other "multipair"
- cables twist each pair of wires (line) separately so inductive coupling
- between the pairs is minimized.
- The cable the the phone company runs from its central office to your
- site is on such a cable (or other fancy electonic carriers), but just a
- few feet of QUAD cable within your site can create enough crosstalk
- between the two lines to garble the data going to a modem.
- The high voltage ringing signal, in particular, can create
- a substantial field.
-
- I suspect in your case you had no problem when you disconnected all the
- phones that might ring on the "second" line because with no phones
- connected, there was no complete circuit hence the ringing signal
- was not turned into any current, hence no inductive coupling was
- generated to couple to your data line.
-
- The fix may be to rewire your site with good twisted pair cable
- (available through any phone supplier and its not very expensive),
- or run a separate cable for your data line that is physically separated
- from your "phone" lines by at least serveral inches throughout its run.
- --
- Merv Graham | gpstwr!merv@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com
- Graham-Patten Systems, Inc. | or: tektronix!gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com!gpstwr!merv
- P.O. Box 1960 |
- Grass Valley, CA 95945 | Ph: 916-273-8412 FAX: 916-273-7458
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