[nzlug] long wire: cat5 or phone?

Mathew Carley mathew at mathew-carley.com
Mon May 28 20:48:54 NZST 2007


Maybe not... but I have to wonder what on earth anyone would be doing 
dragging live, plugged in wire under the house - especially in their 
teeth :D I hope you're not talking from experience.

Mathew

yuri wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">On 
> 28/05/07, Mathew Carley wrote:
>> Last I checked, it will fry the NIC if the phone rings (just a couple of
>> volts too many).
>
> If you are crawling under a floor holding the end of the phone wire
> between your teeth, and it rings, you may bang your head on the beams
> above your head. So I hear :-)
>
> Yuri
>
>
> </div>




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