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[LUG] Re: Noisy phone lines

 

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, James Wonnacott wrote:

> one wire in the pair was broken. When I said that my broadband still 
> worked he said that was possible because it only uses one wire.

The phone extensions I've installed inside my house (including the one
that carries my broadband) have two pairs of conductors inside the sheath.  
(I've no idea why, I just connected them according to the instructions.)
Was he perhaps saying that one wire out of four was broken ?

John
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Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England
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