[nzlug] long wire: cat5 or phone?

[Mathew Carley]

That information may also be out of date - I don't know if that is still 
true. We had a couple of NICS and Mobos coming back with problems and/or 
phone/modem or broadband connections mysteriously not working when the 
NIC was plugged in to the phone line (or when the ADSL was plugged in 
without a filter... the list goes on).

I now live in a country which doesn't have "direct-pluggable" phone 
lines (in fact, just about every country in Europe needs a different 
adapter, which then adapts to RJ-11)... but the last time I used a dial 
up connection was in Thailand about a year ago, because pretty much 
everywhere in Europe that I've been, I have had WiFi or wired broadband 
available.

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>