SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> What a pain doing email in a browser.
>
> To start I moved so I no longer live in the old location ie Tampa.
>
> I have I think dial up if I can make the phone system work. The issue of making the
> phone system work has little to do with the phone system and more to do with the big
> stack of boxes in front of it but that is another story. One issue is that I must run
> a new phone line and that brings up a interesting question.
>
> Comming from Maw Bell, not a Verison system but an old Maw Bell system, the two
> conductor black cable from the telephone pole connects to the side of the house,
> enters a lightning errestor, and then passes into the basement where it goes
> to a junction box.
>
Check that your black cable is not 4 conductor. Two conductor would be
very unusual. Basement, eh? Obviously, you're not in Florida anymore. ;-}
> Is there any particular type of wire one must use on the line side feeding
> to the wall connector that then passes to the eathernet ? I know on
the out side of the
> eathernet modem one needs to use cat 5 but since I am refering to the
> hardwiring on the input side of the modem not to the output side
which uses cat 5 what
> does one use?
>
First, terminology. "Line side" = inbound or from the source. "Load
side" = opposite the line side, where the load actually is. The line
side of your modem (the side going toward the phone company) can be just
plain old phone wire, available at any hardware store. The jacks are
called RJ11s and have space for four wires. The two inside conductors
are for the main line. The two outside conductors are for a second line.
Polarity is important, but I don't recall which one is positive and
which negative. The inside two wires would normally be red and green,
the outside black and yellow. Most houses these days are wired with cat5
from jack to jack (if I'm not mistaken), but from the jack to your
equipment, it's just four wires (cat3?). Yes, you probably need cat5
from the modem to your computer. That's 8 wire cable (four pairs) and
the jack is an RJ45.
You don't need a DSL filter from the jack to your modem, but you will
need one on any regular phone jacks in the house that share that line.
The DSL filters cut line noise that may interfere with the sidebands
that DSL uses to transmit its signal. If you're just using dial-up, all
this is moot. External modems take a serial cable (or maybe USB) from
them to your computer, and internal ones just take a two-pair phone wire
from the jack to the modem.
Paul
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