Re: [NTLK] Local Talk?!?

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 17:15:57 PST


On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:59:27PM -0500, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> on 10/02/03 19:17, Joshua Braddock at joshua.braddock_at_sendit.nodak.edu
> wrote:
>
> > Hey all, i was wondering how to do a local talk network with my
> > home phone lines. Is there a way that i can plug one box into my
> > phone jack and the other into a appletalk to ethernet box, and use
> > my emate anywhere in the house with a phone jack? also, where can i
> > find some adapters with terminators? The school said they would give
> > me some, if they found some.. anyways, thanks in advanced.
>
> That's what we did a long time ago, when I was working for an Apple
> dealer. We used a pair of phone wire that wasn't used by the phone
> system. We put a special wall jack next to the phone jack and
> everybody was using PhoneNets. That worked well. Don't know about the
> resistance,though...

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