Re: Length of Telephone Extension Cable

John of Aix wrote:

> In fact the distance from the exchange has nothing whatever to do with
> it with a 56k modem, you can be at 200 miles if you like as long as
> there is a wire between you and it. The 5/6km limit only applies to
> broadband.

We were talking about the UK telephone system which has a max loop resistance of something like (and this is dredging back to a ELP course from 35 years ago) 3 to 4K.

It would be interesting to see the size of conductors that you would need to get inside the resistance and capacitance limits for a 200 mile line :-)

The _point_ I was trying to make to the OP, and obviously failing, is that the length of the internal cabling will usually be insignificant compared to the external cabling.

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Ian

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