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On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:33 pm, Daniel Palmer wrote:
It's also possible to use the spair pairs in a Cat 5 cable for a telephone or another network connection :).
It depends exactly upon what equipment is connected to the network cable. iirc telephone's use 50v (whether this is just for the ring I'm not sure) - imagine what that would do to you network switch or even worse your laptop. I'd not advise trying. But there again of course you can use a network cable for telephones - it's called voip and it works :) also it's pretty cheap to setup: Assuming a single pots line: Asterisk server - I used a spare K6 500 box fxo card - £50 ata-286 to connect up your normal phone - £50 get a free account with voiptalk.org and/or fwd.pulver.com and you can talk free to anyone on their networks. It can get a bit tricky if you're behind a firewall, but there are ways arround it. HTH Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.