From: Joshua Braddock (joshua.braddock_at_sendit.nodak.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 17:48:42 PST
what he is saying is, tie all the black wires to gether, and all the yellow
wires together. The local talk boxes only use those two wires for their
connection. As i just found out. ... Now, i am just wondering, what are the
colors on the terminator.. i am gonna make my own.. :-) now that i am re
wireing my phone wires..
See. also, most phones dont use the yellow and black, cept if you have two
phone lines.. anyways... hehe :-) i am so smart, SMRT! :~)
~Joshua Braddock~
Owner of the Pretty eMate 300!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Rehorst" <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Local Talk?!?
> Quoting James Elliott <james.elliott_at_newted.org>:
>
> > Go out to the box on the side of your house where the phone line
> > comes in and twist the yellow and the black wires together. Those
> > are the wires used by LocalTalk. I don't think this will work if
> > you've caller ID, but I don't have that, so I don't know.
> > Adaptor-wise, I've a few. I could send you some, I just don't
> > remember if I've any terminators about.
>
> I don't know if you're actually joking or not, James, but this sounds like
a
> bad idea... unless you can explain a little bit more? I don't see why
this
> would be necessary to run a point-A to point-B PhoneNet connection. As
long
> as you have a spare pair of wire already run, you'd just have to wire up
an
> extra jack to each end of the pair... Or does PhoneNet require more than
two
> wires?
>
> At least in Canada, the "box on the side of your house where the phone
line
> comes in" is the service demarcation line - everything below the box to
your
> central office is the phone company's, and everything from the box and
inside
> your house is *yours*. If you mess things up in there in might mean a
call
> to Ma Bell and a big service bill...
>
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