Re: maximum number of devices on POTS line? (a tale of dialup woe)
- From: "ameijers" <aemeijers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:37:07 GMT
"David Lesher" <wb8foz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "ameijers" <aemeijers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
(snip)
> Either your IW is farkeled [engineering term] or one or more of your
> devices is. I bet the wiring.
>
> Connect all your gadgets up right at the demark. What happens?
>
> >I know - I should just get broadband, but DSL isn't available this far
out,
> >and cable modem is horribly overpriced locally.
>
> You might look for jacks that got wet and corroded.
Nothing obvious from visual inspection, but I realize that doesn't always
mean much. No painless way to plug anything other than laptop or a desk set
into the demarc- need to find my box of spare cables, and see if I still
have a 50-foot rj11.
>
> Unplug everything and measure the resistance tip to ring from the
> demark looking INTO the house. It should be 100Kohms or better. If
> that's good, short tip to ring there, and go jack-to-jack and measure
> the resistance of the loop. {Make up a modular cord for the ohmmeter}
> It should be only a few ohms.
>
Thanks- I'll try that when I find the box with my VOM in it, and my box of
extra rj11 pigtails and such.... (unpacking is a LOT more tedious than I
remember. And the lawn keeps growing...)
aem sends....
.
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