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February 13th 04, 03:08 PM

verbositized:

On 12 Feb 2004 14:33:34 EST, am (Gary V.
Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:

Hi Map

Why go to all of that expense?

Within any given residential or commercial block, there are many 'dead
(as far as for phone to switch)' phone pairs. Some of these can be
utilized to connect a network between two homes or two offices, or
sometimes between home and office.
Two of my Uncles homes and their offices were connected this way and
they had no troubles from it.

TTUL
Gary

Depending on who your local telco is, it can be nearly
imossible to get them to hook you up to these dry pairs. It used to be
common; then the telcos decided they'd rather not make this kind of
cheap connectivity available to the general public. I believe I've
heard of some people persuading the telco to set them up by saying it
was to be used for an alarm system between the two ends.

Your probably right!
I remember one of my Uncles saying that if they replace the cabling
they will be shut down, and may not be as fortunate enough to get
another one.
FWIW - he does pay around $30.00 per year for the use of the several
pairs that they are using. I have no idea what they charged him to
make the connections though. I believe he is using 3 pairs of dead
lines for their connection.

TTUL
Gary