[geeks] News server access

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 14 22:01:42 CDT 2001


On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:10:51PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Neat hack - go out to the CPE box on the side of the house, split the one
> line feed, put the filter on one side of the split and re-connect all your
> phones. Then, take the other side of the splitter and plug it into a
> second/third/whatever line and hook your DSL modem direct to that.
> 
> 10 Minute project, esp. if your house is recent and you are already wired
> for dual-line pnones...

Our phone wiring is much better now than it was when me moved in, but it
still has a ways to go to be civilised.  We are wired for two phone lines,
but we also have two phone lines.

We ripped out an aweful lot of phone cruft, including a number of cable
runs that were disconnected at both ends.  Blech.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/



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